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  Hudson River - LoveToKnow 1911
It is not a river in the truest sense of the word, but a river valley into which the ocean water has been admitted by subsidence of the land, transforming a large part of the valley into an inlet, and thus opening it up to navigation.
From Troy to the mouth of the Hudson the river is tidal, and from this point also the river is navigable, not because of the river water itself, but because of the low grade of the river bed by which the tide is able to back up the wat sufficiently to float good-sized boats.
Along the immediate banks of the river are great beds of clay which is extensively used in the manufacture of brick; and the brick-burning plants and huge ice houses are conspicuous features in the landscape.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hudson_River   (1966 words)

  
 NYSDEC Regulations 6 NYCRR Part 940 Hoosic River Drainage Basin
Enters Hoosic River from the northeast on the northeast shore of P 1115c, 0.6 mile west of the hamlet of Buskirk.
Enters Hoosic River from the north 2.0 miles southeast of the hamlet of South Cambridge and 0.2 mile northwest of the hamlet of Buskirk.
Enter Hoosic River from the north, south and northeast 0.3 and 1.5 miles upstream from highway bridge at the hamlet of Buskirk, and 1.2 and 2.4 miles downstream from highway bridge on Route NY 67 at the hamlet of Eagle Bridge.
www.dec.state.ny.us /website/regs/part940.html   (5294 words)

  
  HUDSON RIVER - LoveToKnow Article on HUDSON RIVER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The sources of the river are in the wildest part of the Adirondack Mountains, in Essex county, northeastern New York.
From Troy to the mouth of the Hudson the river is tidal, and from this point also the river is navigable, not because of the river water itself, but because of the low grade of the river bed by which the tide is able to back up the water sufficiently to float good-sized boats.
River on the eastern side and the West Shore on the western side, eachwith connections to the north, east anti west, and each turning westward along the Mohawk to Buffalo.
23.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HU/HUDSON_RIVER.htm   (2011 words)

  
 BerkshireNonprofits
The Hoosic River Watershed Association is dedicated to the restoration, conservation, and enjoyment of the Hoosic River and its watershed, through education, research, and advocacy.
We are a river advocacy group, looking out for the health of the river through monitoring, access, trails, boating, fishing and working with private, nonprofit and government agencies to promote river quality.
The river is a tributary of the Hudson.
www.berkshirenonprofits.com /nonprofitinfo.php3?non=17   (112 words)

  
 About the River.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Hoosic Watershed is a division of the Hudson Watershed, and drains 720 square miles of land.
Hoosic, probably meaning "beyond place" and referring to Mahican hunting grounds beyond the Hudson, is the usual spelling for the river itself.
River Bend Farm in Williamstown is said to have been an Amerindian camping place where travelers and hunters enjoyed the nearby mineral springs (which also supplied a short-lived spa resort about 100 years ago and now supply two privately owned businesses, the Sand Springs Pool and a drinking-water bottling company).
www.berkshire.net /~hoorwa/new/aboutriver.htm   (1334 words)

  
 CIS: Massachusetts Statistics
The western region is hilly and is separated by the Connecticut River Valley from a central upland plateau region which slopes to the Atlantic coast.
Its tributaries are the Deerfield, Westfield, Chicopee, and Miller's rivers.
The Nashua and Concord rivers are tributaries of the Merrimack.
www.sec.state.ma.us /cis/cismaf/mf1c.htm   (1381 words)

  
 Spring 2003 Conservation Perspectives: Hooked on Rivers: How citizens become engaged in ecosystem restoration - N. ...
Brad Chase, an expert in smelt biology, studied the egg deposits in the river and found that both the presence of the dam as well as spring “low flows” were the biggest deterrents to a thriving smelt population.
If these species were to return to the Neponset River, we learned, they would survive only if they could follow the spring flows of fresh water upstream to where a cobbled substrate, covered with bubbling oxygenated water, would afford them a safe haven for laying their eggs.
The impetus for activism along the Hoosic turned out to be wild trout in the river, at the mouth of the tributaries, and mostly upstream of the dreaded flood chutes.
www.nescb.org /epublications/spring2003/danforth.html   (3437 words)

  
 The Natural History of the Berkshires
Envision the Berkshires as a broad, longitudinal valley forming a conduit for the Hoosic River in the north and the Housatonic River in the south.
The southern portion of the Berkshires is drained by the Housatonic River whose major branches arise on the southwestern flanks of Mt. Greylock and the east-central Berkshire plateau and converge in Pittsfield, MA.
The North Branch of the Hoosic River flows south from Readsboro, VT to North Adams, MA where it joins the South Branch that originates in Lanesborough, MA.
drm.williams.edu /nhb/index.htm   (822 words)

  
 Water Resources - The Trustees of Reservations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Charles River Conservancy is a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to the renovation, maintenance, and enrichment of the parklands of the Charles River Basin, including parkways, bridges, and pedestrian access walkways from the Science Museum to the Watertown dam.
The Charles River Watershed Association is a nonprofit organization seeking to protect and enhance the health, beauty and enjoyment of the Charles River and its tributaries.
River Watch Network is an organization that works to protect the health of river ecosystems by providing citizens and groups with the tools they need to understand, restore and protect the river resources in their neighborhoods.
www.thetrustees.org /pages/235_water_resources.cfm   (1816 words)

  
 Low Impact Hydropower Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Bowersock was one of the first hydroelectric power plants established west of the Mississippi River, and is the oldest continuously operating power plant in the region.
The Hoosic River project is located in the towns of Johnsonville and Schaghticoke, Rensselar County, New York.
The Hoosic Project consists of two developments on the Hoosic River east of its confluence with the Hudson River, the Johnsonville Development at River Mile 13.3 and the Schaghticoke Development at River Mile 7.1.
www.lowimpacthydro.org /whatsnewarticle.asp?x=10   (493 words)

  
 watressketch
The North Adams Local Protection Project is located in North Adams along the main stem of the Hoosic River, the North Branch of the Hoosic River, and the South Branch of the Hoosic River.
Work along the Hoosic River's main stem stretches about 13,400 feet from the junction of the North and South Branches, through Braytonville, to a point downstream of the Barber Leather Company, in the vicinity of the North Adams Sewage Treatment Plant.
The project along the Hoosic River's North Branch extends from the Lower Beaver Street Bridge to the junction of the North and South branches, a distance of about 9,270 feet.
www.nae.usace.army.mil /water/topic.asp?mytopic=lpp-northadams   (208 words)

  
 Find New England Sites - POWNAL TANNERY
The tannery landfill is situated on a parcel of land across from the Hoosic River and south
River sediments associated with the Hoosic River are contaminated with several metals, with some exceeding federal benchmark criteria indicating a potential adverse impact to aquatic organisms.
This remedy entails the excavation and consolidation of tannery lagoon waste, construction of a low permeability cap over the consolidated wastes on site, long-term monitoring of river sediments and ground water, and institutional controls to protect the cap from disturbance and to prevent ground water consumption and excavation of waste in the lagoon area.
yosemite.epa.gov /r1/npl_pad.nsf/f52fa5c31fa8f5c885256adc0050b631/F1A8D3A767CCEDEE8525691F0063F6EC?OpenDocument   (1142 words)

  
 HUDSON RIVER - Online Information article about HUDSON RIVER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Mohawk, which is the largest of all the tributaries to the Hudson, and contributes more water than the main river itself.
From Troy to the mouth of the Hudson the river is tidal, and from this point also the river is navigable, not because of the river water itself, but because of the See also:
Cornwall Landing, the river enters the Highlands, the second division of the tidal part of the Hudson and far the grandest of all.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /HOR_I25/HUDSON_RIVER.html   (4481 words)

  
 Orion Grassroots Network - Members
The Hoosic is the only river that ties together Massachusetts, New York and Vermont.
Its main stem, a seventy-two mile length from the village of Berkshire to the hamlet of Stillwater on the Hudson River, joins the industrial communities of Adams and North Adams in Massachusetts to largely agricultural communities such as Pownal and Schaghticoke in Vermont and New York.
Over an area of 720 square miles, the river’s watershed encompasses the forested slopes of Mt. Greylock, Massachusetts’ highest peak, and numerous wetlands, ponds and lakes.
www.orionsociety.org /pages/ogn/vieworg.cfm?action=one&ogn_org_ID=619&viewby=name   (115 words)

  
 History of the Mohawk Trail
In general we may say the Mohawk Trail runs from the mouth of the Hoosic River to North Adams, thence to the Deerfield and on to the Connecticut.
From the mouth of the Hoosic to Eagle Bridge it seems to be generally accepted that the trail lay along the river bank, and probably on both sides of the river, in the place now occupied by the highway nearest the river bank.
The deep rocky gorge of Cold River does not afford an easy passage for even a path, but after its course had been made in the easiest places, it is readily seen that it was the line of least grade.
www.berkshireweb.com /mohawktrail/history/history1.html   (866 words)

  
 ATSDR - PHA - Pownal Tannery, Pownal, Bennington County, Vermont
Surface water and sediment samples were taken from the various locations in the Hoosic River (Tables 10 and 11) and analyzed for metal content.
Guard rails along the outside of the main tannery building in the area overlooking the dammed area of the Hoosic River were not in good condition.
The surface water and sediments of the Hoosic River (Appendix B, Tables 10 and 11), in the vicinity of the site, have been shown to be contaminated with various heavy metals.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov /hac/pha/pownal/pow_p1.html   (8021 words)

  
 American Whitewater - NWRI - Hoosic Schaghticoke Dam to Powerhouse
There is a dam in the town of Schaghticoke that normally diverts the flow of the Hoosic river around the gorge to generate electricity.
Water was released into the gorge from the gate on the far river left end of the dam.
During the flow study we scouted and saw that, while runnable, the channel to the far river right is much more challenging than the center channel.
www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/1320   (2270 words)

  
 U.S. Geological Survey Massachusetts-Rhode Island Water Science Center - Major Drainage Basins
The Hoosic River begins on the west slope of the Green Mountains in northwestern Massachusetts and flows in a northwesterly direction through southern Vermont into New York.
Although the headwater streams have very steep gradients, the overall gradient of the river is moderate, averaging about 19 ft/mi from its headwaters to the USGS streamflow-gaging station near Williamstown, a distance of about 24 river mi.
The natural flow regimen along the main stem of the Hoosic has been altered by Cheshire Reservoir, by flood-control structures in Adams and North Adams, by large ground-water withdrawals, by industrial use and discharge, and by discharge of wastewater from sewage-treatment plants.
ma.water.usgs.gov /basins/hudsonsfw.htm   (202 words)

  
 Berkshire Fly Fishing
Being that the Hoosic is part of the Hudson River Watershed, it’s not out of the question that both our major watersheds here in Berkshire County (the Hoosic and Housitonic) could have once held salmon runs.
Accordingly, the General Court chartered the proprietors of the Upper Locks and Canals on the Connecticut River to operate from the mouth of the Deerfield River northerly to the state line.
The Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Commission was established by Congress in 1983 to provide guidance to these many entities and to ensure cooperation.
www.berkshireflyfishing.org /article_salmon.html   (1379 words)

  
 AMC NY-NoJ: River Information
Indian River to North River III-IV [ ] gauge NY Hudson 2.
North River to Riparius II-III [ ] gauge NY Hudson 3.
Cohoes Falls to Hudson River II-IV(V+) [ ] gauge NY Mombaccus Creek Cherrytown to Boyce Rd. I-III(V+) [ ] gauge NY Mongaup Rio Dam to Delaware River II-III [ ] gauge NY Moodna Creek Woodbury Creek to Old Forge Hill Road II-IV [ ] gauge NY Moose 1.
www.amc-ny.org /rec_actv/canoe/riverinfo.shtml   (1253 words)

  
 River Network Resources
When the Hoosic River Watershed Association (HooRWA) was established in 1989, its primary focus was to raise public awareness of the Hoosic as a beautiful, living river, that supports wildlife and recreation.
The River fest series is well attended, and people later return to the river for recreation and relaxation.
In spite of our industrial-age PCB legacy, the Hoosic River is becoming a popular angling destination-albeit one where fly casters and bait dunkers alike share a catch and release ethic out of necessity.
www.rivernetwork.org /resource-library.php?ResourceID=600   (1069 words)

  
 Fishing the Hoosic: an exercise in variety - iBerkshires.com - Home
The Hoosic watershed’s rivers, streams and lakes, are, many anglers say, one of the best-kept fishing secrets in the region.
Colder water and trout upstream, warm water with pan fish and bass downstream is the rule in the Hoosic watershed.
Thinking ahead to warmer times, anglers unfamiliar with the pleasures of the Hoosic’s various tributaries and the main stem can get a toe wet during free fishing days, when no license is required to cast a line.
www.northadams.com /story.php?story_id=13412   (764 words)

  
 Hoosic River Health Alert - Vermont Department of Health   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
BURLINGTON, VT -- The Vermont Department of Health is issuing a health alert to residents and visitors to the Hoosic River area: Do not swim in, fish in, draw drinking or irrigation water from, or otherwise use water from the Hoosic River.
The Hoosic River runs from Massachusetts through the southwest corner of the state for a few miles before it enters New York State.
According to a report in the Bennington Banner today, the river was running red in Pownal, Vermont on the afternoon of July 4.
www.healthyvermonters.info /admin/releases/070502hoosic.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Hudson River Watershed
The three sub-watersheds are the Hoosic River Basin in the northern tier of the region, Kinderhook Brook at the west central edge of the region, and Bash Bish Brook in the southwestern corner of the region, each ultimately draining in a westerly direction to the Hudson River.
The river flows from Mt. Greylock, the highest mountain in the state (3,491 ft.), to the lowest point in Berkshire County, Williamstown.
The Hoosic River Watershed Association and the Center for Ecological Technology have worked together to identify historic mills that can be reused and redeveloped.
www.mass.gov /envir/water/hudson/hudson.htm   (329 words)

  
 Congressman John Olver: News
The overall goal of the Hoosic River Restoration Project in Adams is to restore fisheries and wildlife habitat in the 2.2-mile flood control chute in Adams.
The Hoosic River is one of the few systems in Massachusetts that still contains a viable self-sustaining population of wild trout, including wild naturalized brown trout and native brook trout.
In addition to the town of Adams, the towns of Lanesborough, Cheshire, North Adams and Williamstown in the Hoosic River watershed would benefit from the project.
www.house.gov /olver/news/pr051109b.html   (261 words)

  
 Environmental Links
The river begins in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts and flows about 159 mi southward and southeastward before emptying into Long Island Sound at Stratford, Conn. Major tributaries are the Naugatuck and Shepaug Rivers in Connecticut.
The Westfield River Watershed Association was established in 1953 to protect and improve the natural resources of the Watershed, as well as to expand recreational and other land use opportunities for people's enjoyment and for sound ecology.
The Rushing Rivers Institute is a clearing house for river science with a mission to help secure water resources for the environment and future human use.
thebeatnews.org /Links/links.html   (5895 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Hudson River": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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