Brodhead Creek

Brodhead Creek is a 21.9-mile-long (35.2 km)[1] tributary of the Delaware River in the Pocono Mountains in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

[2] It is formed by the union of the Middle and Leavitt] branches in Barrett Township in Monroe County.

[3] It receives McMichael Creek as it flows south and east into the Delaware River.

[2] From 1888 to 1944, a coal gasification plant operated at the confluence of Brodhead and McMichael Creeks in Stroudsburg.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed the site on the Superfund National Priorities List in 1983.

Brodhead Creek Park in Stroud Township near dusk in March 2007