jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Kingston will be putting in new bulkheads on the Rondout Creek, which runs off the Hudson River. This is a very busy area with tourist boats and docking for visitors. I'm glad that they're not waiting for the current bulkheads to collapse. Flooding has been a problem there, so the new ones will be a bit higher.

I've often wondered how they put in the first bulkheads on a river. In Nature, the water gets shallower as it reaches the shore, but with bulkheads, the depth is about the same all the way across. I'm guessing that they build the bulkheads at the shoreline and let the river fill up when they are completed.

tcthome Loc: NJ

Hudson is still tidal up that far? Y/N?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, it is. When I used to use a sailboat on the Hudson, I could sail standing still if I tried to go against the tide.

goofybruce

Hudson River is tidal up to the Federal Locks in Troy, some 160 miles "inland." The federal locks is technically the start of the Erie Canal, although the canal proper follows the Mohawk River westward from Cohoes/Waterford. There is also the Champlain Canal which follows the Hudson River north up to Fort Edward where the canal goes north to Lake Champlain while the Hudson heads northwest into the Adirondacks.