Wills Creek (North Branch Potomac River)
Wills Creek is a 38.6-mile-long (62.1 km) tributary of the North Branch Potomac River in Pennsylvania and Maryland in the United States.
Wills Creek drops off the Allegheny Mountains of southeastern Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and enters the North Branch Potomac River at Cumberland, Maryland.
Read more about Wills Creek (North Branch Potomac River): Tributaries, History, Cumberland Flood Control System
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... In the 1950s, the city of Cumberland and the United States Army Corps of Engineers embarked upon an $18.5 million flood-control program along a stretch of Wills Creek bordering the city ... The project was one of the most costly public works projects in the city's history ...
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