Neversink River
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The Neversink River (also called Neversink Creek in its upper course) is a tributary of the Delaware River, approximately 65 mi (105 km) long, in southeastern New York in the United States. The name of the river comes from an Algonquin language phrase meaning "mad river."
It rises in the Catskill Mountains, in Catskill State Park in northern Sullivan County. It flows generally south through the mountains, past Woodbourne and into western Orange County. At Otisville it is joined from the northeast by Basher Kill, then flows southwest, joining the Delaware at Port Jervis, near the common boundary of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
In its upper course near Neversink, it is impounded to form the Neversink Reservoir. It is connected by 5 mi (8 km) water tunnel to Roudout Reservoir, and subsequently to the Delaware Aqueduct.
It was formerly crossed by the Delaware & Hudson Canal at Cuddebackville by an early aqueduct bridge designed by John Roebling and built in 1851.
See also
External links
- 1851 Neversink Aqueduct (http://www.bridgemeister.com/bridge.php?bid=36)
- The Neverskink Valley Area Museum (http://www.neversinkmuseum.org/new/)
- D&H Canal Historical Society (http://www.canalmuseum.org/museum.htm)