Crum Creek

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Crum Creek (from the Dutch, meaning "crooked creek") is a creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and Chester County, Pennsylvania, flowing approximately 24 miles, generally in a southward direction and draining into the Delaware River in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. It begins in a swamp (formerly a lake, dammed out) near Newtown Square, Pennsylvania along which several mills were established in the 1800s. Right afterward it crosses under Pennsylvania Route 29 and winds one and a half miles downstreem until it hits the hamlet of Crum Creek. It later flows into the Delaware River near Philadelphia. Two notable landmarks along the creek's course are high trestles: a trolley trestle about 30 feet high runs across the creek in Smedley Park in Nether Providence Township; this trestle carries the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's 101 trolley line from Media, Pennsylvania across the creek. About a mile south, a 1000 foot long, 100 foot high trestle carries SEPTA's R3 commuter railroad line across the creek, which by now winds through a deep valley. The trestle is half in Nether Providence Township (west of the creek) and half in Swarthmore borough (east of the creek). Crum Creek was dammed in 1931 near Pennsylvania Route 252 to fill Springton Lake (also known as Geist Reservoir), an approximately 391 acre^[1] drinking water reservoir maintained by Aqua America.