Cooks Creek

Cooks Creek is a Class A exceptional value coldwater fishery stream (EV-CWF) located in Northampton and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania.  It has received some attention in recent years from the DCNR Rivers Conservation planning process and also from the Cooks Creek Watershed Association, which has completed numerous projects in the central and southern sections of the watershed.

This project studied the northern portion of Cooks Creek, which has been largely ignored by its surrounding population.  As an important part of the Middle Delaware River watershed, the upper reaches of Cooks Creek are facing serious development pressure as is occurring throughout the Northampton-Bucks border area.

The project focused on the portion of Cooks Creek in Lower Saucon Township in Northampton County and the northernmost section of the creek in Springfield Township. The zone of primary attention begins at the headwaters and ends where Cooks Creek passes the Route 412-212 highway south of Springtown in Springfield Township.  Other sections of the stream in Springfield and Durham Townships in Bucks County will be evaluated as well.

This project will supplement existing work on other sections of Cooks Creek. It will best use Coldwater Heritage Partnership funds by focusing on trout and trout-related issues in less traveled but equally important sections of Cooks Creek and its watershed.  

Lower Saucon Township will completed the study of Cooks Creek with the cooperation of the Saucon Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited  Lower Saucon Township has already conducting a CHP project on Saucon Creek, which has received extensive media attention, garnered extraordinary public support, and developed the potential for land acquisitions and in-stream habitat improvements in spring 2004.  The Township completed the project with the assistance of Barry Isett and Associates, an environmental and engineering consulting firm in Trexlertown, PA. 

Contact:

Joe Hoffman, Barry Isett and Associates

Phone: (610) 398-0904

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  Download a copy of the Cooks Creek Conservation Plan