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Water power of Fishkill creek. The extent of the manufactures 

 of Fishkill creek is shown in the following tabulation, which gives 

 the principal developed water powers on the stream in 1901 : 



Number of dam 



Location 



Name of mill and of owner or 

 operator 



Average working- 

 head, in feet 



Rated horsepower 

 of wheels at aver- 

 age head 



Horsepower of en- 

 gines 



(1) 



(2) 



(3) 



(4) 



(5)) 



(6) 



1 



2 

 3 

 4 

 5 

 6 

 7 



Fishkill 











Fishkill 



Fishkill 



New York Rubber Co 



Rockwell Silk Mills 



17 



430 



250 



Matteawan 



Matteawan 



Matteawan 



Carroll Electric Co 



Glenham Carpet Mill, Hilton 

 estate 



26 

 29 

 20 



32i 



168 



283 



460 



225 

 140 

 525 



1,500 



The catchment area of Fishkill creek above Groveville dam is 

 200 square miles and the total catchment area above the mouth, 

 204 square miles. 



Wappinger creek. This stream rises in the extreme northern 

 part of Dutchess county and flows in a southerly direction into 

 the Hudson river, near the village of New Hamburg. The catch- 

 ment area of that portion of the stream above Hibernia and Clin- 

 ton Hollow dam is 116 square miles. During the last year the 

 New York Water Supply Commission has extensively considered 

 this stream, with Fishkill creek and others, as a partial source 

 of a water supply for the City of New York. 



Considerable opposition, however has developed to this project. 

 There are large manufacturing interests at Wappinger Falls and 

 other points which depend wholly upon the water power of the 

 stream, and a bill has accordingly been introduced at the session 

 of the Legislature, for 1904 prohibiting the taking of any stream 

 for a water supply for any municipality in the State where any 

 number of people depend upon the water power of the stream 

 for their livelihood. 



