HYDROLOGY OF NEW YORK 



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Some of the elevations on Schroon river are as follows : 



Feet 



Schroon lake. 

 Paradox lake. 

 Schroon Falls 

 Elk lake 



At month 



610 

 807 

 820 

 840 

 1,986 



Water power of Schroon river. There is no developed waiter 

 power on Schroon river except at Warrensburg. The Schroon 

 River Pulp & Paper Company - at that place vise something over 

 1000 horsepower, while at several other dams there is 450 to 500 

 horsepower in use, making a total in use at Warrensburg of about 

 1 500 horsepower. The detail of this power may be obtained from 

 the writer's first Report on the Upper Hudson Storage Surveys, in 

 a table facing p. 150. 1 



Boreas river. This stream rises on the south slope of the 

 extreme high Adirondack mountains, at an elevation of over 2000 

 feet above tidewater. It flows through Boreas pond, in a south- 

 erly direction, entering the Hudson river five miles north of North 

 River village. The country through which Boreas river flows is 

 mountainous and there are no power developments. There is, 

 however, a fine opportunity to make storage at Cheney pond, 

 Boreas pond, etc. and undoubtedly this stream will be ultimately 

 utilized for water storage as part of the Hudson river system of 

 storage reservoirs. 



Indian river. The Indian river issues from a precipitous, for- 

 ested mountain area in the eastern part of Hamilton county. It 

 rises in Indian lake and flows in a northeasterly direction into the 

 Hudson river. In 1898 the writer constructed for the Indian 

 River Company a masonry storage dam at the foot of Indian lake, 

 replacing the lumberman's dam which was formerly at this loca- 

 tion, and raising the level of the artificial lake twenty-three feet, 

 or about thirty-four feet above the original water level. The 

 length of the reservoir is about twelve miles and it stores 



'In An. Kept, of State Engineer and Surveyor of New York for 1895. 



