Callender Gap Creek

Callender Gap Creek begins in Archbald. It flows northeast for a few tenths of a mile before entering Jermyn and crossing a street. The creek then turns east-southeast. Over the next several tenths of a mile, it crosses several streets before reaching its confluence with the Lackawanna River.

Callender Gap Creek is an impaired stream. The cause of the impairment is siltation and the source of the impairment is abandoned mine drainage.{{Citation|url = http://www.srbc.net/atlas/downloads/BasinwideProjects/ChesapeakeBayImapiredMaps/Lackawanna_Impairments2014.xls|title = Lackawanna_Impairments2014.xls|year = 2014|access-date = May 21, 2015}}

Callender Gap Creek experiences total flow loss. It primarily serves to drain stormwater from residential areas in the borough of Jermyn. As of the early 2000s, materials such as utility trench waste are drained into the creek, possibly in violation of the Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and Chapter 25 of state water regulations. The borough of Jermyn once requested a permit to discharge stormwater into the creek.{{Citation|work = Pennsylvania Bulletin|url = http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol35/35-33/1517.html|title = IV. NPDES Applications for Stormwater Discharges from Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4)|access-date = May 21, 2015}}

The elevation near the mouth of Callender Gap Creek is {{convert|928|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:1201573,Callender%20Gap%20Creek|title = Feature Detail Report for: Callender Gap Creek|access-date = May 21, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The elevation of the creek's source is between {{convert|1040|and|1060|ft|m|0}} above sea level.

The channel of Callender Gap Creek is entirely obscured by strip mining and is culvertized.

The watershed of Callender Gap Creek has an area of {{convert|0.76|sqmi|km2}}. is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Carbondale.

In the early 2000s, the Lackawanna River Watershed Conservation Plan recommended habitat restoration at the mouth of Callender Gap Creek. A grove of maple trees, a war memorial, and several picnic tables are located at the creek's mouth. The creek's use designation is for aquatic life.

Callender Gap Creek is a coldwater fishery.

Callender Gap Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on November 1, 1989. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1201573.

In the early 2000s, the Lackawanna River Watershed Conservation Plan recommended that the boroughs of Archbald and Jermyn include the protection of Callender Gap Creek in their zoning plans, comprehensive plans, and other plans. The conservation plan also proposed the construction of a park at the creek's confluence with the Lackawanna River. It would be created from a borough-owned parcel of land, as well as all or part of a nearby privately owned parcel. The site could serve as a Heritage Landing for Jermyn and connect to the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail.{{Citation|author = Lackawanna River Corridor Association |url = http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/DCNR_001596.pdf|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923213128/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/DCNR_001596.pdf|url-status = dead|archive-date = September 23, 2015|title = Lackawanna River Watershed Conservation Plan|pages = 136, 139–140, 240, 264, 318|year = 2001|access-date = May 21, 2015}}

• Aylesworth Creek, next tributary of the Lackawanna River going downriver
• Rush Brook, next tributary of the Lackawanna River going upriver
• List of rivers of Pennsylvania
• List of tributaries of the Lackawanna River

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Category:Rivers of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Category:Tributaries of the Lackawanna River

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