The Nesbitt Reservoir is located on Pennsylvania Route 502 in

Spring Brook Township, Pennsylvania Spring Brook Township is a township in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,753 at the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 34.7 square miles ...

History and notable features

This

reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ...

is managed and protected by the Pennsylvania American Water Company (PAWC). It provides a fresh water supply to approximately 75,000 area residents and is situated on Spring Brook, the second-largest tributary to the

Lackawanna River The Lackawanna River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 8, 2011 tributary of the Susquehanna River in Northeastern Pennsylvania. It flows through a region of t ...

. Spring Brook begins near Yosteville, Pennsylvania and flows to its confluence with the

Moosic, Pennsylvania Moosic ( ) is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of downtown Scranton and northeast of downtown Wilkes-Barre, on the Lackawanna River. Moosic is in a former coal-mining region. A few older industries existe ...

. The Spring Brook watershed has nine named tributaries of its own, including subtributaries. In 2012, Pennsylvania American Water completed improvements costing $27.4 million to the dam, which contains the 1.3 billion-gallon reservoir. Whitewater rafting was previously done from the reservoir to

Moosic Moosic ( ) is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of downtown Scranton and northeast of downtown Wilkes-Barre, on the Lackawanna River. Moosic is in a former coal-mining region. A few older industries existed at ...

. It was a medium difficult level for paddling for those not ready for the roaring rapids but not quite a beginner. It is no longer accessible to the public since the reservoir was purchased from PAWC. Before that time, there was a nature trail that included sights of creeks, the stream, falls, deer and other small animals of nature.

References

External links

*http://www.lrca.org/pages/northpocono/pages/springbrookfactsheet.htm * {{authority control Reservoirs in Pennsylvania Protected areas of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Bodies of water of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania