Dry For Centuries, Water To Flow Again In Highland Park’s Heth’s Run

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At the south end of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium parking lot is a small access road with a sign reading “Do Not Enter.” Beyond that is a big gravel parking lot, mostly used for overflow parking during large zoo events and as a staging area and storage space for the Department of Public Works.

More than a century ago, a stream known as Heth’s Run flowed through this area all the way to the Allegheny River, according Susan Rademacher, parks curator with the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy... Read the full article