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Quacken Kill, New York
15.6 mapped river miles, draining 14 square miles, in the Middle Hudson basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 10.0 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is 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
The nearest gauge is 10.0 miles away, at Mohawk River At Cohoes Ny — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
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 11.0–0.0 | 12.4 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 12.4 of the 17.1 miles NHD carries for this stream — 73% 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
- Quacken Kill fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Quacken Kill — access, parking and public land
- Quacken Kill fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class A — drinking water source and Class C — fishing. 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 — 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: Dunham Reservoir At Grafton (RM 11.7). 1 walk-in, 0 boat or canoe launches.
Public land on the river
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 2,810 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Grafton Lakes State Park | state park agency | 2,616 |
| Town Of Brunswick Land | city land | 174 |
| Troy Bureau Of Water Lands | regional water district | 20 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout spawning waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
Quacken Kill sits in HUC 8 02020006, the Middle Hudson basin, and drains 14 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 32 NHD reaches carry the name for 17.1 miles in total — more than the 15.6 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.