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The Poesten Kill begins at Dyken Pond, a man-made body of water located in the Petersburg Mountains about 20 miles (32 km) east of the Hudson River. The Manning Paper Company created the lake in 1902 to control stream flow and prevent flooding. [4]
An octagonal iron tank, 43 feet in diameter and 20 feet high was installed atop a 27-foot-high stone tower. Mains under Broadway and the Bowery delivered the water to hydrants on Pearl, William, Hudson, and a dozen other major streets, in six-, ten-, and twelve-inch pipes, delivering water to a height of 60 feet above the highest streets. [5]
Sauquoit Creek is a 17.0-mile-long (27.4 km) [2] river in New York, United States.It lies within the southern part of Oneida County.The creek flows eastward, then turns sharply and flows generally northward through the Sauquoit Valley to the Mohawk River, entering the river on the east side of Whitesboro.
The Mohawk flows into the Hudson in Cohoes, New York, a few miles north of the state capital of Albany. [10] The river is named for the Mohawk Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy. A major waterway, in the early 19th century, the river's east-west valley provided the setting and water for development of the Erie Canal, as
Esopus Creek / ɪ ˈ s oʊ p ə s / is a 65.4-mile-long (105.3 km) [2] tributary of the Hudson River that drains the east-central Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York.From its source at Winnisook Lake on the slopes of Slide Mountain, the Catskills' highest peak, it flows across Ulster County to the Hudson at Saugerties.
The Croton Watershed is a term describing a part of the New York City water supply system. It is not synonymous with the biological feature Croton River watershed . Numerous small natural lakes and ponds, as well as large Lake Mahopac , are within the river's watershed but not part of the NYC water supply system (even though they too ultimately ...
Map of the Croton River watershed. The Croton River (/ ˈ k r oʊ t ən / KROH-tən) is a river in southern New York with three principal tributaries: the West Branch, Middle Branch, and East Branch. Their waters, all part of the New York City water supply system, [1] join downstream from the Croton Falls Reservoir.
Moodna Creek (Munsee: Waoraneck) is a small tributary of the Hudson River that drains eastern Orange County, New York.At 15.5 miles (25 km) [1] in length from its source at the confluence of Cromline Creek and Otter Kill west of Washingtonville, it is the longest stream located entirely within the county.