New York · Northeast Atlantic Coast & Piedmont · gneiss country
Where your water goes
Your sub-basin
Lower Hudson
then
Atlantic Ocean Seaboard
It arrives here
Atlantic Ocean
Everything that falls here works its way east and north to the Atlantic. It is the drainage that carried the fur trade inland and the log drives back out, and the one Atlantic salmon and American eel still use — the eel travelling the whole length of it to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.
Basin 020301 (USGS hydrologic unit)
The river right now
239%
of the ten-year median for this date · 90.2 m³/s against 37.7 normally
highRunning high for the date. Water will be pushy and coloured, fish will be tucked into the slack water at the edges and behind obstructions, and crossings that are normally easy are not. It is rising — about 60% more water by the end of the week.
Under your feet
About 550 million years old — laid down before anything with a shell or a backbone existed.
All the kinds of rock, and how each one forms →
Manhattan Formation, undivided · Early Cambrian
Bedrock and soil figures are modelled from national geological surveys and global soil mapping, at a resolution of a few hundred metres — right for the shape of a district, not for a particular garden. River discharge is modelled, not gauged. For anything that matters, dig a hole and look.
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