Becks Run

Becks Run

Becks Run is a tributary of the Monongahela River. It is heavily polluted, receiving combined sewer outflow from Carrick (Pittsburgh) [cite web |title=Notices Page 8. |url=http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:DAm5SeIr_goJ:www.pabulletin.com/secure/data/vol28/28-52/28_52_not.pdf+%22Becks+Run%22+%22coal+mine%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us |accessdate=2008-07-29] and Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania. There is a waterfall on a tributary, just downstream from a slate dump, near the intersection of Walter Avenue and Mountain Avenue. There were coal mines along the stream, including Becks Run #2 , owned by the estate of James H. Hays [cite web |title=Lower St. Clair Township History |url=http://abbott-lavalle.info/places/lowerstclair.html |accessdate=2008-07-26] , and mines operated by Jones & Laughlin, and the Birmingham Coal Company. [cite book |title=Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886 |url=http://collection1.libraries.psu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/pageol&CISOPTR=42626&CISOSHOW=41046&REC=6 |pages=175-176 |year=1887 |accessdate=2008-09-07] It is the namesake of the Pittsburgh and Becks Run Railroad Company (1877-1880), which ran from the Smithfield Street Bridge to the Jones and Laughlin Iron Works, and was absorbed by the P&LE Railroad.

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Illustrations

* 1877 engraving of the mouth of Becks Run [http://www.davidrumsey.com/detail?id=1-1-3483-370050&name=H.B.+Hays+&+Bro.+...+Works+at+Becks+Run+...+Pittsburgh,+Pa.]
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ee Also

Becks Run Road

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