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	Little Conemaugh River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main branch rises in eastern Cambria County, along the western slope of the Appalachian ridge separating the watersheds of the Ohio and Susquehanna rivers.
		From 1834 to 1854 the river was paralled by the Allegheny Portage Railroad, connecting the two branches of Pennsylvania Main Line Canal, with the western terminus of the portage railroad at Johnstown.
		The river flows through scenic mountainous areas but is considered severely degraded by abandoned mine drainages from the long exploitation of the region's coal resources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Conemaugh_River (196 words)

	Conemaugh River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Conemaugh River is a tributary of the Kiskiminetas River, approximately 70 mi (113 km) long, in western Pennsylvania in the United States.
		It is formed at Johnstown in southwestern Cambria County by the confluence of the Little Conemaugh and Stoneycreek rivers.
		The Kiskiminetas-Conemaugh river basin flows through a scenic mountainous country that forms the heart of the historic coal-producing areas of western Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conemaugh_River (187 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA - LoveToKnow Article on PENNSYLVANIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The lower portion of the Delaware river has been entered by the sea as the result of the depression of the land, giving a harbour, at the head of which developed the city of Philadelphia.
		The present course of the Upper Allegheny river is the result of the glacier which blocked the northward drainage of the region through which it flows and turned it southward.
		The silk and cement industries are confined largely to the eastern cities and boroughs; the coke, tin and terne-plate, and pickling industries to the western; and the construction and repair of railway cars to Altoona, Meadville, Dunmore, and repair of railway cars to Altoona, Meadville, Duomore, Chambersburg, Butler and Philadelphia.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PENNSYLVANIA.htm (9856 words)

	Streams and Mountains, 12th District of PA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Stonycreek River is 43 miles long, drains 468 square miles, and meets the Little Conemaugh River at Johnstown to form the Conemaugh River.
		The Conemaugh River runs 52 miles from Johnstown to Saltsburg, where it is joined by Loyalhanna Creek to form the Kiskiminetas River.
		The mouth of the Kiski across the Allegheny River from Freeport, Armstrong County, is 30 miles upstream of the Point in Pittsburgh.
	www.house.gov /murtha/district/rivers.htm (2454 words)

	Birding hotspots in Westmoreland County, southwestern Pennsylvania.
		The nearby Conemaugh River is the borderline with northern Westmoreland County.
		The elevation of the river is 1,000~ feet at the upriver (eastern) end of the gorge at Bolivar, 940~ feet at the downriver (western) end at Blairsville.
		The average depth of a gorge from the rim excludes the high points of reference that are located away from the rim, uses the average river elevation of the upriver and downriver ends of the gorge, and averages a sampling of elevations along the rim of the gorge.
	www.westol.com /~towhee/directns.htm (8422 words)

	Len's S.W. Pennsylvania Rails To Trails - West Penn Trail Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The river valley behind the dam became a virtually untouched wilderness in the ensuing half century.
		It's because the water is contaminated with a Green Salt called Ferrous Sulfate, that is carried into the river by streams of water leaking from long abandoned coal mines and piles of mine shale.
		Special Note: Conemaugh River Lake Section: Be sure and take your camera, This section runs in the conemaugh river dam flood control Areas, Near Blairsville, Pennsylvania.
	home1.gte.net /lennoxx0458/westpenn.html (575 words)

	Wildernet - Conemaugh River Lake
		The overall length of the dam is 1,265 feet, with the concrete section measuring 1,096 feet.
		The dam is located on the Conemaugh River about 7.5 miles upstream of Saltsburg, where the Conemaugh River and Loyalhanna Creek join to form the Kiskiminetas River.
		Conemaugh River Lake was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1936 and has been in full operation since November, 1953.
	www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaID=PAAECR&CU_ID=1 (940 words)

	Conemaugh Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania Web Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the early 1830's it was incorporated as Conemaugh Borough [in January 1831], but very shortly [1834] the name was changed to Johnstown in honor of Joseph Johns, the original settler where the borough was located.
		Conemaugh Twp was later subdivided into Yoder Twp (west of the rivers) and Taylor Twp (north of the rivers).
		In 1876 the southern half of what was left of Conemaugh (east of the rivers) became Stony Creek Twp, leaving it to the same borders it has today, on the hilltop above the river to the northeast of the city.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Grove/1111 (477 words)

	JOHNSTONE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHNSTONE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among the public buildings and institutions are the Cambria free library (containing about 14,000 volumes in 1908), the city hall, a fine high school, and the Conemaugh Valley memorial hospital.
		A settlement was established here in 1791 by Joseph Jahns, in whose honor it was named, and the place was soon laid out as a town, but it was not incorporated as a city until 1889, the year of the disastrous Johnstown flood.
		In 1852 a dam (700 ft. long and 100 ft. high), intended to provide a storage reservoir for the Pennsylvania canal, had been built across the South Fork, a branch of the Conemaugh river, 12 m.
	66.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHNSTONE.htm (878 words)

	2002 Governor's Award for Watershed Stewardship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Kiskiminetas-Conemaugh River Basin drains an area of 1,887 square miles from the highest mountain ridges in Pennsylvania through some of the state's deepest river gorges.
		The Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin Alliance, for example, is a coalition of 11 watershed groups and four environmental advocacy groups launched with the goal of conducting a rivers conservation study for the watershed.
		With its broad network of partners and comprehensive conservation plan, the Conemaugh Valley Conservancy has successfully implemented an assortment of restoration projects, including stream monitoring, tree plantings, streambank revegetation, invasive species control, trail and community park improvements and environmental education workshops.
	www.greenworks.tv /watershedawards/conemaugh.asp (414 words)

	Conemaugh River - PA
		This stretch is interrupted by the Conemaugh reservoir.
		The river is almost all easy with only a few areas of fast water in the section between the Johnstown and the reservoir.
		The Conemaugh River was the course of a canal that provided a transport link from Pittsburgh to Johnstown in the 1800s.
	www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?584 (531 words)

	History of the Johnstown Flood-Chapter 4
		The course of the torrent from the broken dam at the foot of the lake to Johnstown is almost eighteen miles, and with the exception of one point, the water passed through a narrow V-shaped valley.
		Four miles further down on the Conemaugh river, which runs parallel with the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was the town of mineral point.
		A warning sound was heard at Conemaugh a few minutes before the rush of water came, but it was attributed to some meteorological disturbance, and no trouble was borrowed because of the thing unseen.
	prr.railfan.net /documents/JohnstownFlood/chapter4.html (2631 words)

	Conemaugh River
		Conemaugh or "Connu-macht" is from the language of the Delaware Indians who occupied the current site of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh Rivers.
		The rivers were natural travel corridors through the imposing Allegheny Mountain ridges and quickly become travel routes for the Delaware and Shawnee tribes that used the Alleghenies as their hunting grounds.
		The rivers and topography of the Allegheny Highlands were put to beneficial use by industries and towns as early as the mid-1700's.
	groups.msn.com /ConemaughRiver (372 words)

	Manufacturers Water Company History 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Due to the pollution of the Stonycreek River the Border Intake became undesirable for domestic service to the city of Johnstown but could be used for industrial purposes.
		During 1900 the Border Intake on the Stonycreek River and the 36-inch pipe line leading to the city was leased by the Manufacturers Water Company from the Johnstown Water Company.
		Due to mine drainage the intake on the Little Conemaugh River was moved upstream to a point 2,900 feet below the mouth of the South Fork branch.
	webpages.charter.net /gjwa/histc02.htm (422 words)

	Hitting the Trails: Making the connection on the West Penn Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The path charted by the railroad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the corridor that now serves as a bike trail, skirting the southeastern edge of Saltsburg.
		Where the finished trail ends about 4.5 miles from town, I shed the buggy river banks and followed what seemed to be an unofficial trail that broke off to the left.
		The current tracks are elevated because Conemaugh Lake, the body of water behind the dam, sometimes covers the old corridor on the other side of the ridge.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04221/357599.stm (1328 words)

	Greater Johnstown Watershed Association Home
		The GJWSA was originally formed as a watershed organization in June of 1982 to focus public attention on the water quality problems associated with stormwater-runoff and acid mine drainage in the Stonycreek, Little Conemaugh and Conemaugh watershed and to promote the water-based recreation potential of the Stonycreek, Little Conemaugh and Conemaugh Rivers and their tributaries.
		Environmental education, storm water management, public river access and the need for creative economic development opportunities are just a few of the issues the GJWSA hopes to work with community leaders to address.
		Now some are turning their gaze to the place where Stonycreek river and the little Conemaugh river converge: Johnstown, including water that runs through the city's concrete canyons of flood protection walls.
	www.gjwsa.pa-conservation.org (604 words)

	May 31, 1889 Johnstown Flood by The New York Times
		The cause of the calamity, it is admitted by the President of the South Fork Fishing Club, the proprietor of the artificial Conemaugh Lake, was the weakness of the dam alone.
		Johnstown, June 6 - The certainty of the towns along the Conemaugh and Allegheny Valleys being subjected to ravages of an epidemic of typhus, or at least typhoid, fever this summer has been doubly assured by the course pursued by the persons who are now engaged in clearing the debris in the river at Johnstown.
		The Conemaugh is a tributary of the Allegheny River, which in turn supplies most of the water used in Pittsburg and Allegheny.
	www.johnstownpa.com /History/hist30.html (1484 words)

	Quik Tour of the City of Johnstown PA USA
		The Little Conemaugh River Valley is in the upper center of the picture at the top of the page and is the source of the great flood of 1889.
		The Conemaugh River Gap is over 1600 feet deep when measured from the top of Rager Mountain (on the North, right in the picture) and the level of the river at its outfall from the gap in Robinson, in Indiana County.
		This is a view of the Conemaugh River in the Coopersdale section of the City of Johnstown immediately before it enters the Conemaugh Gap.
	webpages.charter.net /gdsbmmllp/city/city.htm (1337 words)

	Indiana Printing & Publishing Co.
		The Natural Biodiversity Conservation Strategy is calling upon citizens to help conserve biodiversity by becoming "Weed Whackers." Mechanical control days are scheduled for July 17 on the Conemaugh River near Seward, July 21 at the Mine 40 Overlook in Windber and July 31 along the Kiski River in Leechburg and Hyde Park.
		On July 17, volunteers will be removing knotweed along the Conemaugh River near Seward to prepare the grounds for a river access and a canoe portage trail around a weir dam that crosses the river.
		The Conemaugh Valley Conservancy is spearheading these improvements on land donated by Penelec.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=493374&newsid=12229068&PAG=461&rfi=9 (567 words)

	Pennsylvania Kayak & Whitewater, Tips, Resources and River Information
		Rivers do not always fit easily into one category and there may be regional interpretations.
		The idea is to paddle the boat into a spot where the river pushes the bow down, thus lifting the stern into the air.
		Pool and Drop: Many rivers are characterized by fairly short rapids interspersed with flat stretches which make rescue a bit simpler and allow paddlers to compose themselves before the bottom drops out again.
	www.bigdamfish.net /kayak.html (4408 words)

	Cambria County Conservation & Recreation Authority - AMD Projects
		The Authority acts as the implementation arm for SCRIP, Stonycreek, Conemaugh Rivers Improvement Project, and other watershed groups in Cambria County including the headwaters of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and Blacklick Creek (Conemaugh River Tributary).
		The Authority is currently active in 3 projects on the Little Conemaugh River, 1 project on a tributary to the Conemaugh River and 1 on the Blacklick Creek.
		Most projects are currently located on the Little Conemaugh River watershed (40% of Cambria County) because a comprehensive study of discharges and pollution loads conducted by the county from 1992 thropugh 1995 allows us to prioritize work there and design remediation systems.
	ctcnet.net /cccra/amd.htm (486 words)

	Conemaugh River Lake
		Due to the absence of power boating, Conemaugh Lake has maintained a rich natural environment which is unique in the region.
		Stiffer environmental regulations on the Conemaugh River have resulted in improved fishing for the outdoor enthusiasts.
		Up river from the dam, 6756 acres of reservoir land is leased to the Pennsylvania Game Commission for use as a public hunting ground.
	www.lrp.usace.army.mil /rec/lakes/post/conemaug.htm (725 words)

	2002 Governor's Award for Watershed Stewardship
		By addressing abandoned mine drainage in the Stonycreek and Conemaugh River watersheds, the Stonycreek-Conemaugh River Improvement Project (SCRIP) is improving fishing, recreational and economic opportunities for Somerset and Cambria counties.
		SCRIP initiated a public acquisition of five water reservoirs encompassing 5,500 acres of land and water in the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh watersheds, which resulted in the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources awarding the largest land grant in the history of the state.
		The real impact is in the results derived from the power of partnerships that have enabled local communities to bring their rivers back to life.
	www.greenworks.tv /watershedawards/stonycreek.asp (369 words)

	Conemaugh-Blacklick Watershed
		It was renamed after the Conemaugh River, along which it outcrops, in 1875 by Oliver Platt (Shaffner 1958).
		The Middle Ohio Valley terminology, however, is not applicable for the upper Allegheny River valley or the glaciated Allegheny plateau.
		The Allegheny River Valley was also home to several Late Woodland traditions, including the Mead Island and the Allegheny Valley Iroquois, and was influenced by the Monongahela cultures to the south.
	www.pennarchcouncil.org /SPgrant-2a.htm (7805 words)

	Boston.com / Travel / The spirit of Johnstown
		Pittsburgh prospered as a steel-mill town on the banks of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers, the gateway to all points west.
		From the lake, the Little Conemaugh River twists between the steep slopes and at one point forms a giant oxbow curve.
		Much of the town is reduced to a 45-acre mass of debris collected at the foot of a stone bridge over the river.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/06/23/the_spirit_of_johnstown?mode=PF (1084 words)

	Conemaugh River Lake fishery continues to improve - PittsburghLIVE.com
		The fish in Conemaugh River Lake are a lot like that sample.
		Rick Lorson, area 8 fisheries biologist for the Fish and Boat Commission, believes the fishery at Conemaugh River Lake might be even better than the survey showed, too.
		Electric and manually-operated boats are permitted on Conemaugh River Lake, though boating is essentially limited to canoes and car-toppers because there are no launch ramps.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/outdoors/s_242748.html (720 words)

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