Watering Run
| Watering Run | |
|---|---|
Watering Run looking upstream in its middle reaches | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | just northwest of the community of Rita in Wright Township, Pennsylvania |
| • elevation | between 1,520 and 1,540 feet (460 and 470 m) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Big Wapwallopen Creek on the border between Wright Township, Pennsylvania and Rice Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania |
• coordinates | 41°06′56″N 75°57′27″W / 41.1156°N 75.9576°W |
• elevation | 1,076 ft (328 m) |
| Length | 4.2 mi (6.8 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 480 cu ft/s (14 m3/s) peak annual discharge at mouth (10% probability) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Big Wapwallopen Creek → Susquehanna River → Chesapeake Bay |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | two unnamed tributaries |
Watering Run is a tributary of Big Wapwallopen Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is approximately 4.2 miles (6.8 km) long and flows through Wright Township. The watershed of the stream has an area of 3.87 square miles (10.0 km2). Soils in the vicinity of the stream include Morris Silt Loam, Braceville and Chenango Gravelly Loams, Oquaga and Lordstown Silt Loams, and Rexford Loam. The stream is designated as a Coldwater Fishery. It flooded in 1972.