Penn State University Libraries - Quehanna Bibliography

Names:

Geographic names

• Karthaus 15 min. quadrangle
• Devils Elbow 7.5 min. quadrangle
• Clearfield County
• Covington Township
• (Karthaus Township – not the correct township but frequently referred to as)
• Riddle Road
• Reactor Road
• Meeker Run (which feeds into-)
• Mosquito Creek (which feeds into-)
• West Branch Susquehanna River (which feeds into-)
• Chesapeake Bay [watershed]

Other names

• Quehanna
• Curtiss-Wright Nuclear Research Laboratory of the Pennsylvania State University
• Permagrain , Inc.

Resources:

Topography/Maps:

• Devils Elbow quadrangle, PA 7.5 minute series
• Karthaus quadrangle, PA 15 min. series
• View aerial photos topos online at TerraServer
• Search the CAT under “Quehanna, PA Maps”

Geology:

• Devils Elbow quad (in Atlas of Preliminary Geologic Quads of PA)
• Engineering characteristics of the rocks of PA (describes the geologic formation) (QE157.E58 no.1)
• Browse the CAT subject headings under “Geology Pennsylvania Clearfield County”
• Search the GeoRef and GEOBASE databases

Water:

• Ground water in south central Pennsylvania (QE157.S374 no.5)
• State Water Plan subbasin 8: Upper West Branch Susquehanna River (TC424.P4P43 no.9)
• USGS Water Quality data website – Mosquito Creek near Karthaus, PA
• PA Water Information System
• Search the Water Resources Abstracts database

Other

• Quehanna Site Facility Cleanup Project
• Federal Register announcement

• Decommissioning Plan for the Quehanna, Pennsylvania Site
  This document and others related to the site are available in the NUREG Adams database. Search for "Quehanna".
• Research general vertical file. [archival material]. from the Pennsylvania State University Libraries Archives GVF/1997- 0013-07U
• Nearby towns’ newspapers: Dubois Courier-Express, The Progress (Clearfield)
• Soil Survey of Clearfield County (Life Sciences Library)