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Piney Branch

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Piney Branch is a tributary of Rock Creek, itself a free-flowing tributary of the Potomac River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean via the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. Located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C., it runs along Piney Branch Parkway, and joins Rock Creek at Piney Branch and Beach Drive inside Rock Creek Park.

Generally about 12 feet wide and 4 inches deep, the Piney Branch creek is an Order 1 stream with a surface length of 0.75 miles.^[1]

It drains a watershed of about 0.48 square miles (1,200,000 m²) or 2,500 acres, its surface stream drainage augmented by four combined sewer and storm sewer systems that discharge into it. About 5% of the watershed consists of forested parkland near its surface stream. The rest is residential with some light industrial. The creek is listed as "impaired for" — polluted by — 10 chemicals and four metals: lead, copper, zinc, and arsenic.^[1]

It is the largest tributary located entirely within the Washington city limits.^[1]

Construction photo of the 16th Street Bridge over Piney Branch, published in the September 2, 1906, Washington Times.

It is spanned by the 16th Street Bridge, the country's first parabolic arch bridge.

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