Talk:Poquessing Creek

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)

Who was the Architect by whose hand this work was designed?
Some of the attributes in the side box appear to refer not to the entire seven-mile creek that is the subject of this article, but rather to the bridge that carries Frankford Avenue / Bristol Pike / PA-13 across the creek. In particular, it names John McMenamy as its "architect"; a bridge has one of those but a creek does not (except for the Intelligent Designer ;-> ). Similarly, the article says that the Route 13 bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, but the side box makes the same statement for the creek, and gives an NRHP reference number. And the latitude / longitude coordinates, though they must pick one spot along the whole watercourse, happen to pick the spot where that bridge crosses. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TypoBoy (talk • contribs) 02:34, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That's why the side box is headed "Frankford Avenue Bridge", which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Hope this helps.--BillFlis (talk) 01:25, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Merge proposal
The one-liner at Bloody Run (Poquessing Creek tributary) can and should be merged here (support the March proposal). Klbrain (talk) 16:58, 8 September 2021 (UTC)