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Bush Kill, New York

5.3 mapped river miles, draining 9 square miles, in the Middle Hudson basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 3.3 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of the river, and of every dot on it

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

The nearest gauge is 3.3 miles away, at Rondout Creek — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.

65.8 °F
Rondout Creek
3.3 mi away · 486 cfs · read 30 Sep, 10:15 pm ET
Cool

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 5.3–0.0 5.3 cold —

NYSDEC has classified 5.3 of the 5.3 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% 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

NYSDEC classification

NYSDEC classifies this water as Class A — drinking water source and Class B — swimming and contact recreation. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river. The thermal bar above shows where. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout spawning waters, 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 →

Public land on the river

6 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 75,468 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.

Unit Owner Acres
Sundown Wild Forest state conservation department 22,148
Slide Mountain Wilderness state conservation department 50,751
Bushkill city land 441
South Hollow city land 77
South Mountain city land 298
New York City Watershed Conservation Easement state conservation department 1,753

Species

NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout spawning waters, 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

4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.

Bush Kill sits in HUC 8 02020006, the Middle Hudson basin, and drains 9 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 24 NHD reaches carry the name for 5.3 miles in total.

Other water nearby

The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.