Wallkill River
Tributary of Rondout Creek in New York and New Jersey / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Wallkill River, a tributary of the Hudson, drains Lake Mohawk in Sparta, New Jersey, flowing from there generally northeasterly 88.3 miles (142.1 km)[1] to Rondout Creek in New York, just downstream of Sturgeon Pool, near Rosendale, with the combined flows reaching the Hudson at Kingston.
Wallkill River | |
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Native name | Twischsawkin |
Location | |
Country | United States |
State | New York, New Jersey |
Counties | Ulster, NY, Orange, NY, Sussex, NJ |
Cities | New Paltz, NY, Walden, NY, Montgomery, NY, Sparta, NJ |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Lake Mohawk, New Jersey |
• location | Sparta, Sussex County, NJ |
• coordinates | 41°01′58″N 74°38′38″W |
• elevation | 720 ft (220 m) |
Mouth | Rondout Creek |
• location | Rifton, Ulster County, NY |
• coordinates | 41°51′13″N 74°02′55″W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
Length | 88 mi (142 km)[1] |
Basin size | 785 sq mi (2,030 km2)[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | Gardiner, NY[3] |
• average | 1,365 cu ft/s (38.7 m3/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Shawangunk Kill |
• right | Papakating Creek |
The river is unusual because it flows north between two major south-flowing rivers, the Hudson and the Delaware River. It also has the unusual distinction of being a river that drains into a creek, due to being impounded shortly before the Rondout confluence into a small body of water called Sturgeon Pool near Rifton, and what reaches the Rondout from there is the lesser flow.