Alloway Creek

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Alloway Creek is a tributary of the Delaware River in Salem County, southwestern New Jersey in the U.S.

Its headwaters are five separate streams (Abbot Meadow, Cool Run, Carlisle Run, Deep Run, and Cedar Brook) in the Daretown/Aldine communities of Upper Pittsgrove and Pilesgrove Townships. The stream flows into Alloway Lake, the largest lake in Salem County. Other impoundments include Ballingers Lake, Cobbs Mill Lake, Elkinton Mill Pond, Laurel Lake (which provides all of the drinking water for Salem City), Ponchantoula Lake, Sycamore Lake, and Watsons Mill Lake. Below Alloway Lake, the creek becomes a tidal marsh and meadow estuary. The Alloway Creek watershed is 75 square miles (194 sq km), accounting for about 20% of Salem County land area, and providing a habitat essential for commercial and sport fishing, hunting and trapping.

A volunteer organization called Delaware Riverkeeper has a monitoring site at the Route 49 bridge in Quinton. As of 1995, Riverkeepers regularly tested the surface water and recorded stream conditions. The goal of Riverkeeper is to ensure that the Delaware River and every tributary stream of the watershed is actively protected by local residents.