Esopus Creek Levels and Turbidity :: Town Of Saugerties (2025)

FAQs

Which way does Esopus Creek flow? ›

The entire 26-mile course of the creek flows “clockwise” in a sweeping arc from the headwaters at Winnisook Lake on Slide Mountain to the Ashokan Reservoir.

To be clear, this is not just regular muddy water. The type of concentrated muddy water being sent into the Lower Esopus is considered “pollution” by both NYS and Federal laws.

The swimming area is near the bridge at the entrance of the campground. This area can be accessed from Mt Tremper/Phoenica road as well.

The Creek is a 65.4-mile-long tributary of the Hudson River (which borders Saugerties). It drains the east-central Catskill Mountains in New York. From its source at Winnisook Lake on the slopes of Slide Mountain, the Catskills' highest peak, its flow includes a segment into and then out of the Ashokan Reservoir.

The word 'Esopus' in Dutch has been translated as either “brook” or as “small river”. The Esopus were a group of the Delaware or Lenni Lenape Nation.

This warm water river provides anglers with a good chance of catching some nice sized bass and common carp. This section of the Esopus also has a good variety of panfish.

It is very safe there has never been a crime committed there.

Look for dense, colorful, or scummy accumulations of algae on the water's surface. Common causes of algae blooms include agricultural and urban runoff, wastewater treatment plant discharges, industrial discharges, or faulty septic systems.

Esopus was formed from Kingston April 5, 1811. It became a favorite spot for country homes for people of means from New York and Brooklyn. Port Ewen, near the mouth of the Rondout, was founded by the Pennsylvania Coal Company in 1851 as a coal depot. Rifton, on the Wallkill, was the site of a large cotton mill.

Is Big Deep in Woodstock open? ›

The Town of Woodstock officially closed Big Deep and Little Deep on the Saw Kill in 2020, when tourism by City-dwellers spiked in response to the COVID pandemic and the amount of trash left behind became too overwhelming for the municipal government to handle.

Thanks to decades of work to halt pollution and restore the Hudson, people want to get in and enjoy the river. Much of the Hudson is safe to swim in much of the time, but the river has only 4 public swimming areas along its 150-mile stretch (a huge contrast to the 224 beaches on Long Island Sound).

The trout in this section are rainbows, browns and native brook trout. This part of the river is relatively small. Below the portal the Esopus River is, in my opinion, a tailwater. Many do not call it a tailwater because the water doesn't come directly from a dam turbine discharge, It comes from the portal.

Upper Esopus Creek is a regulated river by inter-basin transfer of water. The Shandaken Tunnel, also referred to as the “Portal,” is a handmade aqueduct that connects the Schoharie Reservoir to the Esopus Creek.

Esopus Creek /ɪˈsoʊpəs/ is a 65.4-mile-long (105.3 km) tributary of the Hudson River that drains the east-central Catskill Mountains in the U.S. state of New York.

The river flows north in a slow meandering course through a broad flat valley called the Teton Basin (formerly known as "Pierre's Hole"), flanked by the Teton Range to the east and the Big Hole Mountains to the west. Much of the river's upper course in the Teton Basin is surrounded by extensive wetlands.

To determine the direction Sinking Creek flows, examine the provided map for elevation contours and observe the general flow from higher to lower elevation, which is from Northeast to Southwest in this case.

Elevations in the watershed range from about 900 feet near the mouth of Fish Creek to over 5,000 feet at the crest. The watershed is approximately 13 miles long and averages around 6 miles in width. Fish Creek flows in a generally north direction to its confluence with the Clackamas River.