Sturgeon Pool

Sturgeon Pool
Sturgeon Pool
Location	Ulster County, New York
Coordinates	41°50′37″N74°02′34″W / 41.8436°N 74.0428°W / 41.8436; -74.0428
Type	reservoir
Primary inflows	Wallkill River
Primary outflows	Wallkill River
Basin  countries	United States
Surface area	194 acres (79 ha) [1]
Average depth	34 ft (10 m) [1]
Max. depth	93 ft (28 m) [1]
Shore length1	4.4 mi (7.1 km) [1]
Surface elevation	131 ft (40 m) [1]
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.

It was created by damming the Wallkill River just above its confluence with Rondout Creek for hydroelectricity (thus the flow of the Wallkill that reaches the Rondout is greatly attenuated, making the Wallkill a rare instance of a river that drains into a creek).

Writer J MacKinnon says that due to damming of the water supplies and overfishing, there are now no sturgeon in Sturgeon Pool. ^[2]

Fish found in the lake include; smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, carp, bluegill, black crappie and white perch. ^[1]

References

1. "Sturgeon Pool". Department of Environmental Conservation New York State. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
2. MacKinnon, J. B. (2013). The Once and Future World: Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   9780544103054.