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Becks Run

FieldValue
nameBecks Run
source1_locationBecks Run Road at East Agnew Avenue
mouth_locationMonongahela River
length_mi2.82

Becks Run is a tributary of the Monongahela River in the United States. As an urban stream, it is heavily polluted, receiving combined sewer outflow from Carrick (Pittsburgh) and Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania.

Geography and other notable features

There is a waterfall on a tributary, just downstream from a slate dump, near the intersection of Wagner Avenue and Mountain Avenue. There were coal mines along the stream, including Becks Run #2, owned by the estate of James H. Hays, served by an incline and the H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad. Other mines at various times were operated by the Birmingham Coal Company, H.G. Burghman, Jones & Laughlin, and the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company.

History

The Pittsburgh and Beck's Run Railroad (1877–1880), which ran from the Smithfield Street Bridge to the Jones and Laughlin Iron Works, and was absorbed by the P&LE Railroad, was named after this tributary. A former town, located where Becks Run enters the Monongahela, was also named Becks Run.

References

References

  1. "Notices Page 8.".
  2. "Lower St. Clair Township History".
  3. (1887). "Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886".
  4. [https://archive.today/20140314052307/http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/allbecksrun.html Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania]
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