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Schoharie creek. Chuctenunda creek itself has too small a catch- 

 ment area to be of much value. 



Cayadutta creek is another small stream which rises in the cen- 

 tral part of Fulton county, and flows south through the cities of 

 Gloversville and Johnstown into the Mohawk river at Fonda. 

 There is considerable water power developed upon it, but state- 

 ments in reference to the quantity are not at hand. The catch- 

 ment area above its mouth is 62 square miles. The catchment at 

 Johnstown is 40 square miles. 



Schoharie creek. This stream rises in the southern part of 

 Greene county, whence it flows 18 miles northwesterly, and then 

 northerly about 50 miles to the Mohawk. Its catchment 

 comprises the greater part of Schoharie county and portions of 

 Greene, Albany, Delaware, Otsego, Montgomery and Schenectady 

 counties. Its headwaters, which lie at an elevation of about 1800 

 feet above tidewater, drain the western and northern slopes of 

 the Catskill mountains. The lower reaches of the creek flow 

 through a long, flat valley in a channel largely covered with 

 flat boulders. At Central Bridge, about 19 miles from the 

 mouth of the creek, the water surface is 560 feet above 

 tidewater; at the mouth the elevation is 274 feet. Notwithstand- 

 ing this large fall. Schoharie creek is not considered specially 

 valuable for water-power development. It is subject to great 

 extremes of flood and low-water flow. This is largely explainable 

 by the nearly complete cutting off of the forests from the catch- 

 ment area many years ago. The impervious character of the 

 soil may also be taken into account. The principal subdivision's of 

 the catchment area of Schoharie creek are as follows: 



Water power of Schoharie creek. With one exception the water 

 powers thus far developed in the Schoharie creek catchment are 

 nearly all small and unimportant. The principal tributaries of 

 the stream are the Cobles kill and the Batavia kill, but neither of 



Square miles 



At mouth 



Central Bridge 

 Gilboa 



917 

 684 

 308 



