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An Overview of the 5 sub-watersheds:

From its source in Jackson Township, south following the Route 92 corridor to Glenwood near the Susquehanna/Wyoming County Border. Includes:

	Basins and un-named tributaries from Cherain Pond in Jackson Township, Bear Swamp Creek and Bell Creek and their basins and unnamed tributaries between Gelatt and South Gibson.
	Stearns Lake, Potter Lake and Bear Swamp

	Leslie Creek, Partners Creek, Nine Partners Creek, Butler Creek, Tower Creek, and Millard Creek and their basins and un-named tributaries
	Hunt Lake, Tingley Lake, Blanding Lake, Acre Lake, Loomis Lake
	Waters from Thompson, Gibson, Jackson, Ararat, Lenox, New
	Milford, Harford Townships
	Pressured by development along Interstate 81 which makes a corridor through the area

Martins Creek, Hop Bottom Creek, Harford, Bridgewater, Brooklyn, Lenox, Lathrop and Hop Bottom Borough

	Contains the historic Rt. 11 corridor from Nicholson to New Milford
	Constituents in this sub-watershed include lake residents, preservationists in the historic towns and members of the farm community

Nicholson to the Susquehanna River following the Rt. 6 corridor from Bardwell to Tunkhannock. Includes:

	Lake Carey draining to Billing Mill Creek; Swale Brook
	Horton’s Creek, Field Brook, Monroe Creek
	Oxbow Lake and Oxbow Creek
	Springville, Lemon, Nicholson Township, Nicholson Borough, Overfield and Tunkhannock Townships, Tunkhannock Borough

From its source in Herrick Township to its confluence with the Main Stem near Glenwood.

	Divided by Interstate 81, it follows the Rt. 374 corridor
	Dundaff Creek from its source in Clifford Township to river mile 4.39 (Newton Lake Outlet) to its confluence with the East Branch at Clifford.
	Watershed communities include Herrick, Clifford, Greenfield and Lenox Townships, residential areas near Elk Mountain and East Mountain and parts of Benton Township

From its source in Scott Township near Montdale to Lackawanna State Park. Includes:

	Chapman Lake, Sickler’s Pond, Elm Brook, Baylor’s Lake
	Kewanee, Manataka and Sheridan Lakes drain here
	Ackerly Creek from its source at Maggie’s Swamp to Factoryville including Rabbit Hollow, Ackerly Fairgrounds and ballfields, Glenburn Pond, Dalton Streamside Park, Lily Lake, Keystone College campus and Christy Mathewson Park.
	Kennedy Creek from its source in Scott Township near Interstate 81 includes Spring Hill Farm, Manning Farm Diary and Rowlands Farm
	Municipalities include North Abington, Benton, Clinton, Nicholson, Lemon, Tunkhannock, Overfield, South Abington, Abington, Glenburn and La Plume Townships and Factoryville, Nicholson and Dalton Boroughs.
	Threatened by development along Rt. 6 and sprawl from Clarks Summit

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