English Chalk Streams and Pennsylvania Limestone Spring Creeks
by
Eugene P. Macri Jr.
Aquatic and Environmental Scientist

The Visual Tour Continues

This is Green Spring outside Newville Pennsylvania.  Notice the slight chalkiness of the water due to the sediments and strata the stream comes from.  It could easily be in Great Britian. The stretch below is on Big Spring.  Once again it could also be a typical English Chalk Stream.

This photo shows English workers in a Chalkstream.  Now compare it to the photo of Vince Marinaro below on the Letort.  Vince is actually marrying the waters from the English Chalk Streams and the Letort in a rather illustrious ceremony!

This next photo shows a fly angler fishing an English Chalk Stream.  Now take a look at the Vince Marinaro fishing the Letort.  The streams are basically the same.  Yet there is so much misinformation about these streams from all avenues including the PFBC, DEP, and the fishing community it makes you wonder if any of these people have ever fished or studied these waters.

Notice the relative size and the way the banks look on both of these streams.  The Limestone Spring Creeks of South-Central Pennsylvania and the English Chalk Streams have the same biogeochemical signatures and "footprints" scientifically.