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Chester County Watersheds Schuylkill River Planning Commission Map Series Pigeon Creek Stony Run DELAWARE BAY BASIN Conestoga French Creek Schuylkill River Tributaries Creek Crow Creek French Creek Gulph Creek Pickering Creek Pigeon Creek Trout Creek Schuylkill River Drainages Pickering Creek Stony Run Crow Creek Trout Creek Valley Creek Delaware River Tributaries Valley Creek Chester Creek Gulph Creek Crum Creek East Branch Brandywine Creek Darby Creek Darby Creek Pequea Ridley Creek Creek Crum Creek Ridley Creek Christina River Tributaries Christina River East Branch Brandywine Main Stem Brandywine Red Clay Creek West Branch Brandywine Chester Creek White Clay Creek CHESAPEAKE BAY BASIN West Branch Brandywine Creek Chesapeake Bay Tributaries Big Elk Creek Little Elk Creek Octoraro Northeast Creek Creek Main Stem Brandywine Susquehanna River Tributaries Conestoga Creek Data Sources: Octoraro Creek Data Source for Watershed Boundaries and Hydrology: Pequea Creek Red Clay Creek Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 1998 Stream Data Source for Municipal Boundaries: Chester County Land Records System, 1998. Municipal Boundary This map was digitally compiled for internal maintenance Watershed Boundary Big Elk Creek and developmental use by the County of Chester, Pennsylvania to provide an index to parcels and for other reference purposes. Parcel lines do not represent actual field surveys of premises. County of Chester, White Clay Creek Pennsylvania makes no claims as to the completeness, accuracy or content of any data contained hereon, and makes no representation of any kind, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied or inferred, with respect to the information or data furnished herein. Little No part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any Elk Creek N means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as expressly permitted by the County Northeast Creek of Chester, Pennsylvania. Christina River Prepared by: 5 0 5 Miles Chetser County Water Resource Authority Chester County Planning Commission, 2002..

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