Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Rices Landing, PA

Rices Landing is a borough in northeastern Greene County, sitting on the bank of the Monongahela River at the mouth of Pumpkin Run.

Rices Landing was incorporated as a borough in 1903, though its prosperity as a river landing long predates that, built on the Monongahela River trade in coal, clay, sand and timber.

In its river-trade heyday Rices Landing was so prosperous that it was regarded as the "Gateway to Western Pennsylvania."

Lock and Dam No. 6 on the Monongahela River was completed at Rices Landing in 1856, part of the lock system that opened the river to year-round navigation.

The W. A. Young and Sons Foundry and Machine Shop was the center of industry in Rices Landing during the First and Second World Wars, and the historic foundry complex still stands.

The Rice's Landing Historic District, preserving the borough's river-era architecture, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Rices Landing is home to Pumpkin Run Park, which is owned and maintained by the borough.

The borough has built public boat docks at the former Lock Six site on the Monongahela, and Rices Landing is a designated landing and trailhead on the Greene River Trail and the Upper Monongahela Water Trail.

The 2010 census counted 463 people in 179 households in Rices Landing, and the population was 420 at the 2020 census.

Rices Landing covers less than a square mile of land in total, yet packs in a bandstand, picnic pavilion and riverfront recreation along its Monongahela shoreline.