Crab Run (Mahanoy Creek tributary)
| Crab Run | |
|---|---|
Crab Run looking downstream | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, not far from the census-designated place of Beruys Lake |
| • elevation | 897 ft (273 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Mahanoy Creek in Barry Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania near Taylorville |
• coordinates | 40°44′56″N 76°23′22″W / 40.74880°N 76.38936°W |
• elevation | 742 ft (226 m) |
| Length | 2.5 mi (4.0 km) |
| Basin size | 3.50 sq mi (9.1 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | (August 2001) 0.61 cu ft/s (0.017 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Mahanoy Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | one unnamed tributary |
| • right | one unnamed tributary |
Crab Run is a tributary of Mahanoy Creek in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long and flows through Barry Township. The watershed of the stream has an area of 3.50 square miles (9.1 km2). Despite being listed as impaired by abandoned mine drainage, the stream is not impacted by this; no mining has been done in its watershed. However, some stream reaches in its watershed do experience agricultural impacts. The stream is not far from the Western Middle Anthracite Field. Its watershed is designated as a Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery. As of 2001, the stream contains macroinvertebrates, but no fish.