Connoquenessing Creek
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| Connoquenessing Creek | |
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 View of the Connoquenessing Creek from Renfrew, PA
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| Country | United States of America |
| State | Pennsylvania |
| Major cities | Butler, PA, Harmony, PA, Zelienople, PA, Ellwood City, PA |
| Length | 50 mi (80 km) |
| Source | Oneida Lake and Dam |
| Mouth | Beaver River |
| - location | Ellwood City, Beaver County, Pennsylvania |
| Major tributaries | |
| - left | Glade Run, Breakneck Creek |
| - right | Little Connoquenessing Creek, Slippery Rock Creek |
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Connoquenessing Creek is a tributary of the Beaver River, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in western Pennsylvania in the United States.
It rises in eastern Butler County and flows southwest, through the Lake Oneida reservoir and past Butler, then WNW in a meandering course past Eidenau where Breakneck Creek is received, and then continuing past Harmony and Zelienople. It receives Slippery Rock Creek from the northwest near Ellwood City, then joins the Beaver west of Ellwood City, approximately 3 mi (5 km) further downstream.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, only the Mississippi River receives more toxic material than the Connoquenessing. "The Armco Inc. steel facility in Butler, purchased last September by AK Steel, ranked first nationally for the amount of pollutant discharges. The steelmaker legally discharged more than 29 million pounds of nitrate compounds -- a waste produced when nitric acid is used to "pickle" or clean the surface of raw steel -- into Connoquenessing Creek." The creek is a popular kayaking destination, with many boaters entering the creek at the old Route 96 bridge.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Post-Gazette article on pollution of Connoquenessing Creek
- U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations
- Penn State Univ.: Geology of Butler County
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