Here’s a not so fun fact: One of Dunmore reservoirs is 450 feet from Keystone landfill.

From the STT

A Pennsylvania American Water project to upgrade a 152-year-old dam on the No. 7 Reservoir in Dunmore released large quantities of silt and sediment into Roaring Brook and the Lackawanna River, muddying their waters and turning them into a brownish gray color for miles, authorities said.

Environmental advocates of clean waterways fear that ecological damage from the sediment will significantly impair them and their aquatic wildlife of macroinvertebrates and fish for some time, perhaps years.

The release began as early as Sunday and apparently continued through the week, with Roaring Brook flowing through Dunmore and Scranton continuing to have a muddy brown color on Friday. The discoloration and sediment is starkly obvious where Roaring Brook flows into the clear Lackawanna River in South Scranton, and turns the river brown from that point on and further downstream. The waterway flows into the Susquehanna River above Pittston in Luzerne County.