Скачать или смотреть Marshall Lake Spillway - North Park - McCandless, PA

Marshall Lake, located in North Park, is part of a series of waterways fed by Pine Creek in the park. Built in the 1930's as CWA government project after the Great Depression, it has stood as a focal point of Allegheny County for almost a century.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the first program of the New Deal was established in April of 1933. Allegheny County responded with a CCC camp, Camp 1383, in North Park. Lake Marshall was constructed by the Civil Works Administration (CWA) in 1934-45.

Marshall Lake is popular with local fisherman and as of 2019 is also the home of 2 bald eagles who nest just above the lake in a tree above Kummer Road behind the skating rink. It also has a man made island which is popular with walkers as it has a nice path around it. Unfortunately, as of 2019 it has been closed due to deterioration of the foot bridge to get there.

Marshall lake is fed by the North Fork of Pine Creek and then drops over the spillway to a stream with two smaller falls, built for flood control, before they feed into the main North Park Lake.

Once the water travels through the lake, it passes over the main lake spillway on the corner of Pearce Mill and Babcock before making its way pout the of the park towards Hampton, Shaler and the Allegheny River.

If you would like to check out the spillway for yourself, you can find it at 40.612107, -80.019347.

For more details on the park and its rich history, go to https://sites.google.com/site/latodam...