Barnes Run

Barnes Run begins on the northern side of a mountain in Black Creek Township. It flows west for several tenths of a mile before turning north for nearly a mile. After several tenths of a mile, it leaves the mountain and crosses Rock Glen Road. The stream then turns west-northwest for several tenths of a mile, passing near the Sugarloaf Golf Course and flowing through a series of ponds. A short distance downstream of the ponds, it reaches its confluence with Black Creek.

The elevation near the mouth of Barnes Run is {{convert|758|ft|m}} above sea level.{{Citation|author = Geographic Names Information System|url = http://gnis.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1202218,Barnes%20Run|archive-url = https://archive.today/20150307134636/http://gnis.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=136:3:0::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:1202218,Barnes%20Run|url-status = dead|archive-date = March 7, 2015|title = Feature Detail Report for: Barnes Run|accessdate = March 4, 2015|author-link = Geographic Names Information System}} The elevation near the stream's source is between {{convert|1460|and|1480|ft|m}} above sea level. Barnes Run is in the ridge and valley physiographic province.

The Barnes Run collecting dam has a capacity of {{convert|30000|USgal}}.{{Citation|author = William J. McLaughlin|work=Standard-Speaker |url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1926338//|title = Hazleton Gets its Water From 10 Different Sources|page = 11|date = February 2, 1963|accessdate = March 5, 2015|via = newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

Barnes Run is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Nuremberg. The stream is not considered to be a major stream.{{Citation|publisher = PPL Corporation |url = http://www.pplreliablepower.com/NR/rdonlyres/51452575-3EA6-4B4D-9179-6C3AB38F029E/0/01ExhibitC_FINAL.pdf|title = Exhibit C – Siting Analysis|pages = 23–24|date = December 2008|accessdate = March 4, 2015|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121312/http://www.pplreliablepower.com/NR/rdonlyres/51452575-3EA6-4B4D-9179-6C3AB38F029E/0/01ExhibitC_FINAL.pdf|archivedate = April 2, 2015}}

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection opted not to recognize the watershed of Barnes Run as a "high quality watershed" with the potential to be affected by development. One proposed route for the Susquehanna-Roseland 500 kV Transmission Line crosses Barnes Run.

Barnes Run is one of eleven officially named streams in the watershed of Nescopeck Creek that has not been assessed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.{{Citation|author = Robert Weber|url = http://www.coldwaterheritage.org/docs/unassessed-waters/western-pocono-stream-info.pdf?sfvrsn=0|title = Named Unassessed Streams – Nescopeck Creek (5D) HUC 10: Nescopeck Creek (0205010704)|page = 2|accessdate = March 4, 2015}}

Barnes Run was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on January 1, 1990. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1202218. The stream was added because of its appearance on the Atlas of the Anthracite Coalfields of Pennsylvania, which was published in 1888.

The Barnes Run Reservoir was constructed in 1912. It is dammed by an earth dam with a masonry core wall and a cut-stone spillway. In 1964, it was noted in the Standard-Speaker that the reservoir rarely ran dry.{{Citation|work=Standard-Speaker|url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1926393//|title = Care in Use of Water is Urged as 2 Reservoirs Are 'Bone Dry'|page = 14|date = October 23, 1964|accessdate = March 5, 2015|via = newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

Barnes Run has been one of several streams used as a water supply in Hazleton. It and two other streams (Wolffs Run and Stony Creek) supplied water to as many as 14,400 people in 1974.{{Citation|author = United States Army Corps of Engineers|url = http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Portals/70/docs/iwrreports/IWR005-002045-0022801.pdf|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141208201043/http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/Portals/70/docs/iwrreports/IWR005-002045-0022801.pdf|url-status = dead|archive-date = December 8, 2014|title = A method for integrating surface and ground water use in humid regions|page = 181|date = February 1974|accessdate = March 4, 2015|author-link = United States Army Corps of Engineers}} In the early 1900s, Barnes Run and Wolffs Run made up 25 percent of the water supply of Hazleton.{{Citation|author = W. D. Collins|url = http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/0496/report.pdf|title = The industrial utility of public water supplies in the United States|page = 58|year = 1923|accessdate = March 5, 2015}} In 1963, Barnes Run was one of ten suppliers of water to Hazleton. It also supplied water to West Hazleton and Humboldt.

Barnes Run is designated as a Coldwater Fishery. Wild trout naturally reproduce in Barnes Run from its headwaters downstream to its mouth.{{Citation|author = Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission|url = http://fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf|title = Pennsylvania Wild Trout Waters (Natural Reproduction)|page = 48|date = January 2015|accessdate = March 4, 2015|author-link = Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission|archive-date = July 1, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150701171657/http://www.fishandboat.com/trout_repro.pdf|url-status = dead}} The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission considered adding the stream to its list of Wild Trout Waters in a meeting on April 11 and April 12, 2012.{{Citation|work=Pennsylvania Bulletin|url = http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol42/42-5/42_5_not.pdf|title = FISH AND BOAT COMMISSION Classification of Wild Trout Streams; Proposed Additions to List|page = 63|date = February 4, 2012|accessdate = March 4, 2015}}

Giardia cysts were observed in the Barnes Run Reservoir in February 1986.{{Citation|author = Lisa Scheid|work = Times Leader|url = http://archives.timesleader.com/1993_10/1993_08_29_FILTRATION_PLANT_MEETS_WITH_SUCCESS_HAZLETON_S_NEW_FACILITY_WENT.html|title = Filtration plant meets with success: Hazleton's new facility went on line Wednesday|date = August 29, 1993|accessdate = March 5, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402155641/http://archives.timesleader.com/1993_10/1993_08_29_FILTRATION_PLANT_MEETS_WITH_SUCCESS_HAZLETON_S_NEW_FACILITY_WENT.html|archive-date = April 2, 2015|url-status = dead}}

• Scotch Run (Black Creek), next tributary of Black Creek going downstream
• Falls Run, next tributary of Black Creek going upstream
• List of rivers of Pennsylvania

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