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Basher Kill, New York
13.2 mapped river miles, draining 72 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
This gauge stands in the Basher Kill. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is NYSDEC's — but the reading is this water.
Thermal classification
NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | NYSDEC type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 13.2–10.6 | 4.8 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 4.8 of the 15.6 miles NHD carries for this stream — 31% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- Basher Kill fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Basher Kill — access, parking and public land
- Basher Kill fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class C — fishing. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.
NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →
Access
1 mapped NYSDEC access site within a quarter mile of the water, upstream first: Bashakill Marsh At Mamakating (RM 9.4). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 7,884 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Bashakill Wma | state conservation department | 3,121 |
| Bashakill Wildlife Management Area | another state agency | 3,122 |
| Palisades Interstate Park | another state agency | 548 |
| Orange County Land Trust Land | land trust or conservancy | 1,093 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
Basher Kill sits in HUC 8 02040104, the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin, and drains 72 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 34 NHD reaches carry the name for 15.6 miles in total — more than the 13.2 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.