Talk:Poquessing Creek

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[edit] Sewerization

Actually, there is a very minor, unnamed tributary of the Poquessing that's been sewerized. It meets the Poquessing on the Phila. side where it passes Stevenson Lane, above which it runs through the Torresdale campus complex of Nazareth Academy/Holy Family College, still as a stream, due west to Grant Avenue, where it runs underground (I'm giving directions upstream). Until the 1970s, it ran farther aboveground through undeveloped woods bordering what was then Eden Hall (now Fluehr Park) to about Eden Street, beyond which it had been sewerized sometime before 1960. It's shown on this old map as the last tributary of the Poquessing: http://historical.maptech.com/getImage.cfm?fname=burl06sw.jpg&state=PA (see the extreme left, nearly at the bottom, just above the "33" elevation call-out in Torresdale).--BillFlis 17:11, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

You are right! I remember an incident in July 1969 where police and rescue units were called to the channelized stream to rescue children exploring it. A police officer crawled the length of the channel, but the children must have left before the police entered. I had forgotten about it, and the stream isn't on some maps showing channelized streams. I will adjust what I wrote. EdK 19:17, 20 April 2006 (UTC)