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Stony Run watershed covers an area of 5.6 square miles and is the smallest watershed of the five watersheds protected by Green Valleys Association. The Stony Run is classified as a High Quality Trout Stocking Fishery (PA DEP). In 2003, Stony Run Watershed and its associated tributaries that directly flow into the Schuylkill River were placed on the Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation Registry under the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. In the last several years, development and the impact of homeowner land management have taken their toll on the watershed.
Stony Run flows through the northern Chester County townships of East Coventry, East Vincent, and East Pikeland. It enters the Schuylkill River below Spring City, a borough named for the numerous springs which supply it and Stony Run. The majority of the sub-basin can be described as growing suburbs in the portions adjacent to the existing borough, with the remaining areas still rural and supporting some active farming. Some of these farms, however, are struggling and pressures to sell land for development are increasing.
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