Lehigh River

Catchment area of ​​the Lehigh River

Lehigh River in Jim Thorpe

Forest View on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania. Detail of a watercolor by Karl Bodmer 1832.

The Lehigh River is a 166 km long tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania. Literary mention was made of the Lehigh River in John Jakes ' North and South as a filmed novel. The home of George Hazard ( Lehigh Station), however, is fictitious. The river follows a tortuous course through the Appalachian Mountains, so called him the Lenni Lenape Lechewuekink ( ' there where many divisions are diversion '), which then yields the anglicized name Lehigh developed. The headwaters of the river is characterized by numerous rapids. Its lower course forms the heartland of the Lehigh Valley area mentioned, the historic importance for the degradation of anthracite coal and had the steel production.

Run

The river has its origin in the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania. It rises several ponds in the southwest of Wayne County, about 25 km south-east of Scranton. He first follows a southwesterly direction through the south of Lackawanna County and flows through the Francis E. Walter Reservoir. In Whitehaven, Middleburg it turns south and flows in a zigzag course through the Lehigh Gorge State Park to Jim Thorpe and then southeast to Lehighton. He squeezes southeast of Lehighton passed in a narrow gorge cut on Blue Mountain. This point is called the Lehigh Gap. From there, the water flows in a southeasterly direction to Allentown, where the Little Lehigh Creek opens and then passing to the northeast of Bethlehem, only to culminate in Easton at the state line into New Jersey in the Delaware River.

Hydrology

The United States Geological Survey operates a level in Glendon. There, the average annual river discharge is 106 m³ / s

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