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Check the water before you burn the gas. The Salmon River’s pinned up top, your own list sits right under it, and any river in the country with a USGS gauge can go in it.
Pinned · the annual run
Salmon River · Pulaski, NY
256 cfs · low and clear · much below normal for Oct 23 · gauge read 11:15 PM, Oct 22 ET
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Reservoir levels · NYC DEP
Westchester reservoirs
Croton System: 100.2% of usable storage · whole NYC system 82.2% (normal for the date 75.3%) · DEP, October 22, 2026.
Reservoirs don’t have flow, they have storage. DEP posts the Croton System, the reservoirs in Westchester and Putnam, as one number, and the date’s on the card. Kensico isn’t on DEP’s daily list, which is fine, Kensico and I have unfinished business anyway.
The streams between them do flow
- Croton River at New Croton Dam
- Cross River at Katonah
- Cross River near Cross River
- East Branch Croton near Croton Falls
- East Branch Croton at Brewster
- East Branch Croton near Putnam Lake
- Muscoot River below the Amawalk dam
- Muscoot River at Baldwin Place
- Titicus River at Purdys Station
- Titicus River at Salem Center
- West Branch Croton near Croton Falls
- West Branch Croton near Carmel
- West Branch Croton below the dam near Kent Cliffs
- West Branch Croton at Richardsville
Reservoir rules are DEP’s: a New York fishing license, boat tags if you’re on the water, and a free DEP Access Permit where the signs call for one. Check DEP before you go.
Tri-state rivers
New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Each river and reservoir has its own page with live numbers and the rules for that water.
- Upper Delaware. New York and Pennsylvania. The main stem at Lordville and the West Branch at Hale Eddy.
- Westchester. New York. DEP reservoir storage and the Croton River below the New Croton Dam.
- New Croton Reservoir. New York. The biggest Croton System reservoir: storage, flow below the dam, and the DEP rowboat rules.
- Kensico Reservoir. New York. Lake trout water near Valhalla, with the DEP permit and boat rules.
- Cross River Reservoir. New York. Stocked browns every spring, and flow below the dam at Katonah.
- West Branch Delaware. New York. The river below Cannonsville Dam, read at Hale Eddy.
- Beaver Kill. New York. Flow and water temperature at Cooks Falls.
- Esopus Creek. New York. The creek above the Ashokan Reservoir, read at Coldbrook.
- Delaware River, Trenton. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The main stem at Trenton, with New Jersey’s shad and striped bass rules.
- Pequest River. New Jersey. Stocked trout water by the Pequest Trout Hatchery.
- Farmington River. Connecticut. The trout management area, read at Riverton and Unionville.
- Housatonic River. Connecticut. Flow at Falls Village, with the trout and bass rules.
How to read these
- Flow. Cubic feet per second: how much water is moving past the gauge right now. Big river, big number. A 200 on a creek and a 200 on the Delaware are two different days.
- 24 hours. The change since about this time yesterday. Rising or dropping means it moved 10% or more; anything less is steady.
- Normal for today. USGS keeps every year of daily flows for each gauge. Line up this date across all of them: the middle half is normal, the next slice out is below or above, the bottom and top tenth are much below and much above. Same five buckets USGS uses on its own maps.
- Fishable, pushing, blown out. Only the Salmon River gets those words. That’s the annual run, and those are our lines at 335, 750 and 2,000 cfs. Every other river gets the real numbers and how they stack up against normal. You know your water better than a chart does.
- Reservoirs. Percent of usable storage, straight from DEP. Full-ish reservoirs spill, low ones show you the structure. Either way the fish don’t read the chart.
Flow, water temperature and the normal for today come from USGS; reservoir storage comes from NYC DEP. The site reads each gauge at most every 15 minutes. Gauges go quiet (ice, floods, a dead battery), and when one does, the card says so instead of guessing. Your list lives in this browser only; nothing about it is sent anywhere but the gauge numbers.
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