Sorber Run

File:Sorber Run looking upstream in its upper reaches.JPG

Sorber Run begins in a valley on a mountain in Lake Township, Luzerne County. It flows east-northeast for a few tenths of a mile before turning northeast for a short distance. The stream then turns north for several tenths of a mile, flowing through a valley to the west of Sorber Mountain. It then exits Lake Township, Luzerne County and enters Noxen Township, Wyoming County. In this reach, the stream turns north-northwest for some distance before turning north. After a while, it turns north-northwest, leaves its valley, and turns north, reaching its confluence with Bowman Creek.

Sorber Run joins Bowman Creek {{convert|16.25|mi|km}} upstream of its mouth.{{Citation|url = http://www.lycoming.edu/cwi/pdfs/paGazetterOfStreams.pdf|title = Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams|page = 131|date = November 2, 2001|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

File:Sorber Run looking downstream in its upper reaches.JPG

The elevation near the mouth of Sorber Run is {{convert|1142|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:1199562,Sorber%20Run|title = Feature Detail Report for: Sorber Run|access-date = October 12, 2015}} The elevation of the stream's source is between {{convert|1940|and|1960|ft|m|0}} above sea level.

For most of the length of Sorber Run, the surficial geology immediately next to it consists of alluvium. However, the surficial geology of alluvium does not extend very far from the stream before being replaced by a till known as Wisconsinan Till. In the stream's upper reaches, the surficial geology consists of Wisconsinan Till.

During the Ice Age, when the receding glacier in the valley of Bowman Creek reached the mouth of Sorber Run, the lower outlets of Glacial Lake Bowman opened.{{Citation|author = Duane D. Braun|url = http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_015820.zip|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140524155253/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/cs/groups/public/documents/document/dcnr_015820.zip|url-status = dead|archive-date = May 24, 2014|title = Surficial geology of the Noxen 7.5-minute quadrangle, Wyoming and Luzerne Counties, Pennsylvania|pages = 11, 18|year = 2007|access-date = October 12, 2015}} Sorber Run is classified as a High-gradient Clearwater Creek.

File:Sorber Run looking upstream near its mouth.JPG

The watershed of Sorber Run has an area of {{convert|2.08|sqmi|km2}}. The stream is entirely within the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Noxen.

Most of the length of Sorber Run is located within Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 57.{{citation|author = Pennsylvania Natural Heritage Program|url = http://www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/cnai_pdfs/wyoming%20county%20nai%201995_2001.pdf|title = A Natural Areas Inventory of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania|pages = 32, 107|year = 1995|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

Sorber Run was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1199562.

In 2005, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission considered adding Sorber Run to its list of Class A Wild Trout Waters.{{Citation|work = Pennsylvania Bulletin|url = http://www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol35/35-9/384.html|title = Changes to List of Class A Wild Trout Waters 2005; Additional Public Comment Period|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

The drainage basin of Sorber Run is designated as Exceptional Value waters and a Migratory Fishery.{{Citation|work = Pennsylvania Code|url = http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/025/chapter93/s93.9i.html|title = § 93.9i. Drainage List I. Susquehanna River Basin in Pennsylvania Susquehanna River|access-date = October 12, 2015}} Wild trout naturally reproduce in the stream 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) – August 2015|page = 106|date = August 2015|access-date = October 12, 2015}} It is classified by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission as a Wilderness Trout Stream for wild brook trout from its headwaters downstream to its mouth.{{Citation|author = William Wasserman|url = http://www.tunkhannock.com/things_to_do/wasserman.htm|title = Wildlife Abounds Throughout Wyoming County|access-date = October 12, 2015}} This makes it one of two Wilderness Trout Streams in Wyoming County, the other being Cider Run.

When Sorber Run was surveyed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission in 2002, it was given a biomass class of A. The biomass of trout was more than {{convert|45|kg/ha|lb/acre|sp=us}}.{{Citation|author = Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission|url = http://fishandboat.com/wild98.htm|title = Pennsylvania Wilderness Trout Waters|access-date = October 12, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141219164419/http://fishandboat.com/wild98.htm|archive-date = December 19, 2014}}

Sorber Run is listed on the Wyoming County Natural Areas Inventory. It was once designated as Class A Wild Trout Waters` for brook trout.{{Citation|newspaper = Wyoming County Press Examiner|url = http://archives.wcexaminer.com/?p=33462|title = New ‘Class A’ trout steam in county|date = February 6, 2013|access-date = October 12, 2015}}

• Stone Run (Bowman Creek), next tributary of Bowman Creek going downstream
• Baker Run, next tributary of Bowman Creek going upstream
• List of rivers of Pennsylvania
• List of tributaries of Bowman Creek

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Category:Rivers of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

Category:Tributaries of Bowman Creek

Category:Rivers of Pennsylvania