Conewango Creek
| Conewango Creek | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Basin features | |
| Main source | 42°16′51″N 78°51′25″W / 42.2808333°N 78.8569444°W |
| River mouth | 1,181 ft (360 m) 41°50′28″N 79°08′43″W / 41.8411708°N 79.1453223°WCoordinates: 41°50′28″N 79°08′43″W / 41.8411708°N 79.1453223°W |
| River system | Allegheny River |
Conewango Creek is a 71-mile-long (114 km)tributary of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania and western New York in the United States.
The creek's drainage covers much of southeastern Chautauqua County, New York and southwestern Cattaraugus County, New York. The creek's most notable tributary is the Chadakoin River, which supplies the creek water from Chautauqua Lake. Its watershed is bounded by the Chautauqua Ridge, a continental divide.
Conewango Creek joins the Allegheny River at the city of Warren, Pennsylvania.
On September 26, 2009 an obsolete Civil War-era low head dam within the city of Warren on the Conewango Creek was removed. Removal of this dam allowed fish migration from the Allegheny River throughout the upper reaches of the Conewango Creek drainage basin.
From August 25 through September 4, 2014, two Civil War-era remnant dams on the Conewango Creek in North Warren, Pennsylvania were removed. One dam was a partially breached low head dam similar to the dam that was removed downriver in Warren in 2009. Because it was located in close proximity to the Warren State Hospital, and used to provide a water supply to that facility in years past, this dam was known as the Hospital Dam. The second dam was a remnant rock and crib dam located immediately upriver of the first. With the removal of the Carter Dam in the autumn of 2009, and the hospital dams in 2014, the entirety of the 27 miles (43 km) course of the Conewango Creek mainstream are open and free of dams, improving the ecology of the Conewango Creek watershed. Removing the dam was a public safety service, and will reconnect most of the Conewango Creek for freshwater mussel host species.
On January 16, 2015 it was announced that Conewango Creek won the 2015 Pennsylvania River of the Year contest, an annual competition conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers since 1983. The general public was invited to vote online for the designation from November 10 through December 15, 2014, choosing from among five waterways across the state that had been nominated.
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