Greater Stockport Creek Watershed Alliance

Encompassing the Watersheds of the Kinderhook and Claverack Creeks in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York

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Watershed Links:

  • Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program

  • Kinderhook Creek Swimming Holes

  • Kinderhook Creek Whitewater

  • EPA Watershed Resources

  • NYSDEC Fishing Access Map (Kinderhook Cr.)

  • NYSDEC Fishing Access Map (Taghkanic Cr.)

  • NYSDOH Fish Advisories

  • USGS realtime data: Kinderhook Cr. @ Rossman


    • Hudson Valley Links:

  • Hudson River Watershed Alliance

  • Hudson River Estuary Program

  • Hudson Riverkeeper

  • HRECOS

  • NOAA Tide Tables

  • Hudson Basin River Watch


    • General Links:

  • Columbia County EMC

  • Rensselaer County EMC

  • USGS in New York

  • Columbia-Greene Trout Unlimited Chapter

  • Columbia Land Conservancy

  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council

  • Rensselaer Plateau Alliance

  • Rensselaer Land Trust

  • New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission


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    Logo design by John Reilly

    The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has provided funding through the Hudson River Estuary Program to Hudson Basin River Watch to raise awareness about water resources. This project has also been funded by the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC) to follow their work plan for the Hudson River Estuary Program to communicate to the public on issues in the area of estuary management.

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    The Kinderhook, Stockport and Claverack Creeks are a vital resource to our area. They will continue to be beautiful, healthy and fun as long as they stay clean. You can help!

    Check out our News Page for community events to get engaged with our watershed.

    INVASIVE SPECIES ALERT!!


    Watch out for these potential invaders. Do your part to stop their spread into the Stockport Watershed.


    The Asian Loach (aka Oriental weatherfish) is an invasive fish recently observed in the Schoharie Watershed. This fish is often released from home aquariums and can disrupt the native stream ecology by eating aquatic insects, an important food source for native fish species. Read more about the loach here and work by DEC Region 4 fisheries scientists here (1.7MB pdf).


    Didymosphenia geminata (aka "Didymo" or "Rock Snot") is an invasive algae that grows in thick mats which can smother stream bottoms and negatively impact native fish, plants, and aquatic invertebrates. Didymo has been reported in the Esopus and Battenkill Rivers in the Hudson Valley. Proper cleaning of waders is thought to be a major factor in reducing the spread of this species. Checkout New York State Didymo research on Facebook.

    Here are some links to fact sheets describing what you can do to help your watershed. Many thanks to the Lake George Waterkeeper/Fund for Lake George for their help in developing these fact sheets.

    Information Fact Sheets:

    Nitrates

    Buffer Zones

    Septic Systems

    Bacteria

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