Becks Run

Becks Run
Physical characteristics
Main source Becks Run Road at East Agnew Avenue
River mouth Monongahela River
Length 2.82 mi (4.54 km)

Becks Run is a tributary of the Monongahela River. As an urban stream, it is heavily polluted, receiving combined sewer outflow from Carrick (Pittsburgh)[1] and Mount Oliver, Pennsylvania. There is a waterfall on a tributary, just downstream from a slate dump, near the intersection of Wagner Avenue and Mountain Avenue. There were coal mines along the stream, including Becks Run #2, owned by the estate of James H. Hays,[2] served by an incline and the H.B. Hays and Brothers Coal Railroad. Other mines at various times were operated by the Birmingham Coal Company, H.G. Burghman, Jones & Laughlin, and the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Company.[3][4]

It is the namesake of the Pittsburgh and Beck's Run Railroad (1877-1880), which ran from the Smithfield Street Bridge to the Jones and Laughlin Iron Works, and was absorbed by the P&LE Railroad. A former town, located where Becks Run enters the Monongahela, was also named Becks Run.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Notices Page 8". Retrieved 2008-07-29.
  2. ↑ "Lower St. Clair Township History". Retrieved 2008-07-26.
  3. ↑ Geological Survey of Pennsylvania 1886. 1887. pp. 175–176. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
  4. ↑ Virtual Museum of Coal Mining in Western Pennsylvania
  • 1877 engraving of the mouth of Becks Run
  • "Becks Run Tipple". Retrieved 2008-07-04.

Coordinates: 40°24′40″N 79°57′22″W / 40.411°N 79.956°W / 40.411; -79.956


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