{{Short description|River in the United States}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} [[File:Flickr - Nicholas T - Dusky (1).jpg|thumb|Brodhead Creek Park in [[Stroud Township, Pennsylvania|Stroud Township]] near dusk in March 2007]] '''Brodhead Creek''' is a {{convert|21.9|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed April 1, 2011</ref> [[tributary]] of the [[Delaware River]] in the [[Pocono Mountains]] of [[Monroe County, Pennsylvania|Monroe County]] in [[Northeastern Pennsylvania]].<ref name = "gertler">Gertler, Edward. ''Keystone Canoeing'', Seneca Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-9749692-0-6}}</ref>
It is formed by the union of the Middle and Leavitt branches in Barrett Township in [[Monroe County, Pennsylvania|Monroe County]]. The native name was "Analomink." The present name was given for [[Daniel Brodhead II|Daniel Brodhead]], a prominent early settler.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mathews|first=Alfred|title=History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe Counties, Pennsylvania|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofwaynepi00math|year=1886|publisher=R.T. Peck & Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofwaynepi00math/page/1047 1047]}}</ref> It receives [[McMichael Creek]] as it flows south and east into the Delaware River.
The stream flows south, separating the boroughs of [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|Stroudsburg]] and [[East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|East Stroudsburg]]. It covers a basin of 294 sq mi and its maximum [[discharge (hydrology)|discharge]] was 68,800 cubic feet per second, in 1955.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}
Brodhead Creek joins the [[Delaware River]] at the head of the [[Delaware Water Gap]].<ref name = "gertler"/>
From 1888 to 1944, a [[coal gasification]] plant operated at the confluence of Brodhead and McMichael Creeks in [[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania|Stroudsburg]]. The operations produced coal tar waste which contaminated the groundwater. The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|Environmental Protection Agency]] (EPA) placed the site on the [[Superfund]] [[National Priorities List]] in 1983. After cleanup, operations and monitoring activities are ongoing. The EPA removed the site from the National Priorities List in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=BRODHEAD CREEK STROUDSBURG, PA |url=https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/CurSites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0301433&msspp=med |website=www.cumulis.epa.gov |publisher=U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |access-date=21 January 2021}}</ref>
==See also== *[[List of rivers of Pennsylvania]] *[[List of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commonscat|Brodhead Creek (Monroe County, Pennsylvania)}} *http://www.troutnut.com/trout-fly-fishing-stream/5/Brodhead-Creek-Pennsylvania-pictures *[https://brodheadwatershed.org/ Brodhead Watershed Association] *[http://www.brodheadtu.org/ Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited] *[https://waterdata.usgs.gov/pa/nwis/current/?type=flow U.S. Geological Survey: PA stream gaging stations]
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