Susquehanna River | Get involved in your community!
Do you live in the Susquehanna River Watershed? These are watershed groups that work within the Susquehanna Watershed. They can get you started with protecting water in your community! Explore your community role to learn more about how to help your watershed.
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna
Municipalities in the Susquehanna River Watershed:
All of Cumberland County, and at least a third of all Pennsylvania Counties, drain to the Susquehanna River.
Watershed Facts
Unique Feature
Though broad, the Susquehanna is not a deep river and so is not suited to commercial navigation. Nevertheless people use the Susquehanna in a variety of ways; it turns the turbines in several hydroelectric plants, cools the uranium rods in nuclear power plants (including the Three Mile Island station), provides drinking water for millions, and is a summer playground for canoeists, sport fishermen and inner tube riders. The West Branch Susquehanna flows through some of the wildest parts of Pennsylvania; millions of sportsmen from many states come to hunt or to fish along its banks for largemouth bass, walleye, or muskellunge. The Pennsylvania Fish Commission, which stocks purebred striped bass in the lower portion of the river, also is currently engaged in a shad restoration project in the Susquehanna.
Paddling is a popular activity on the Susquehanna River. Each year, organizations host recreational and educational sojourns on the river. Some last several days with overnight camping.
