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Chartiers Creek Pollution

1964-02-03

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Chartiers Creek Pollution
  • Title
  • Chartiers Creek Pollution
  • Creator
  • Jack Mittelhauser
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F11.I04
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B015.F11.I04
  • Description
  • A polluted Chartiers Creek directly behind the Federal Enameling and Stamping Company in McKees Rocks. Chartiers Creek and its watershed, an area that comprises approximately 277 square miles within Washington and Allegheny Counties, begins in Washington County and flows north for about thirty-five to forty miles until it empties into the Ohio River five miles below Pittsburgh near McKees Rocks. Some of its tributaries include, Vance's, Little's, Pollock's, McCorkle's, Kenny's, and Brush Runs. Chartiers Creek, one of the most polluted watersheds in the state of Pennsylvania, derived its name from Peter Chartiers, a Native American interpreter.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Chartiers Creek (Pa.)
    Water pollution--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County.
    Rivers--Pennsylvania--Allegheny County.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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