page_title: River des Peres
hierarchical_section_title: River des Peres
caption_attribution_description: English: Lagoons in Forest Park in St. Louis made to look as the River des Peres may have looked in the 19th century. The real River des Peres was put in huge sewer pipes under Forest Park in the 1920s.
context_page_description: The River des Peres is a 9.3-mile metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and storm water systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County. Its largest tributaries are Deer Creek and Gravois Creek. At St. Louis, the river has a mean annual discharge of 79 cubic feet per second.
context_section_description: The River des Peres (French: rivière des Pères) (English:  /diˈpɛər/) is a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and storm water systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County.  Its largest tributaries are Deer Creek and Gravois Creek. At St. Louis, the river has a mean annual discharge of 79 cubic feet per second.
caption: The "River des Peres" in Forest Park. This is not the actual river (which flows in a concrete pipe underneath) but rather is a waterscape created with the city's water supply
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