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More About the Hoosic and Its Watershed
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Archaeology / History / Historical Societies
Environmental Issues / Water Quality
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Flow and Flood Data
General Watershed Information
Geography and Maps
Geology
Natural Communities [under
construction]
Archaeology / History / Historical Societies
Publications
and web documents
Hoosic History. A summarized chronology of river-related
events and scenes in Hoosic
watershed towns. Compiled summer 2005 from various sources by Williams
College intern
Erin Blanchard. Download PDF file here.
The Hoosac
Valley: Its Legends and Its History. Grace Greylock Niles. New
York:
The Knickerbocker Press, 1912.
History of
North Adams, Mass. 1749-1885. W.F. Spear.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~maberksh/towns/nadams/historyofna.htm
History of
Rensselaer Co., New York : with illustrations and biographical
sketches of its
prominent men and pioneers. Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett,. Philadelphia.
Everts & Peck. 1880. Available online (membership fee required)
at http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=BookList&dbid=16661&ti=0
Stillwater,
NY Town History (with links to related sources)
http://www.stillwaterny.org/Town/history.htm
The Battle of
Bennington:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bennington
www.virtualvermont.com/
(click on History)
Teacher resources
about the Battle of Bennington at:
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/107bennington/107bennington.htm
The Hoosac Tunnel:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/hoosac.html
http://www.berkshireweb.com/mohawktrail/history/notes.html
http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/western/wghp.htm
Advocate Weekly article, Oct 2005, about historic floods, as pdf
file: Link under construction.
These documents
related to the Hoosic are available through local library networks:
· Civil Functions, Department of the Army Appropriation Bill,
1950, CIS-NO: 81 S895-0,
SOURCE: Senate Committee on Appropriations, DOC-TYPE: Published
Hearing, DATE:
Apr. 5-9, 11-15, 18-20, 1949, SESSION-DATE: 1949,
SUDOC: Y4.Ap6/2:Ar5/950, CIS/Historical Index
· Report
on reexamination of Hoosic River, N.Y., Vt., and Mass., and Roaring
Branch at
Bennington, Vt., CIS-NO: 10351 H.doc.182, DOC-TYPE: Serial Set Collection,
DOC-NO:
H.doc.182, 76-1, SESSION-DATE: 1939, CIS/Historical Index
· Report
on Hoosic River, N.Y., Vt., and Mass., CIS-NO: 9386 H.doc.684,
DOC-TYPE: Serial Set Collection, DOC-NO: H.doc.684, 71-3, SESSION-DATE:
1930, 1931, CIS/Historical Index
Historical Societies
Cheshire Historical Commission
120 North St., PO Box 73, Cheshire, MA 01225
Phone: (413) 743-2669
Adams Historical
Society. This website contains a variety of collections, including
images,
personal histories, and other archival documents.
http://www.adamshistorical.org/
North Adams
Historical Commission
City Hall, North Adams, MA 01247. Phone: (413) 663-6770
Williamstown
House of Local History.
http://www.williamstown.net/house_of_local_history.htm
Pownal Historical
Society.
Soloman Wright Public Library
P.O. Box 313, Pownal, VT 05261
www.pownal.org
pownal@adelphia.net
Ken Held, President, 802-823-5536, kwheld@adelphia.net
The Bennington
Museum, Bennington, VT
Includes the Bennington Historical Society.
http://www.benningtonmuseum.com/historical_society.aspx
Rensselaer County
Historical Society
http://www.rchsonline.org/
Hoosick Township Historical Society
166 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY 12090 (518) 686-4682
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Environmental
Issues / Water Quality
[See also Advocacy Links page under
construction]
EPA Water Quality Assessment Data for Hudson-Hoosic Watershed in
2002
Massachusetts
http://oaspub.epa.gov/pls/tmdl/w305b_report_v2.huc?p_huc=02020003&p_state=MA
Vermont
http://oaspub.epa.gov/pls/tmdl/w305b_report_v2.huc?p_huc=02020003&p_state=VT
New York
http://oaspub.epa.gov/pls/tmdl/w305b_report_v2.huc?p_huc=02020003&p_state=NY
State Water
Quality Standards.
Massachusetts http://www.mass.gov/dep/bwp/iww/files/314cmr4.htm
Vermont (PDF file) www.state.vt.us/wtrboard/docs/adoptedwqs.pdf
New York http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dow/bwam/wqstds.html
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/regs/part703.html
Vermont Water
Quality Division Homepage
http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/waterq/wqdhome.htm
HooRWA Water
Quality Reports. [PDF files]
[See also HooRWA's Monitoring page.]
·Monitoring
the South Branch in 2004
--summary
·Monitoring
the South Branch in 2004 -- full report
How Clean the Green?
Part I. Reports the results from 2001 monitoring of the
Green River near the Water St. Mill in Williamstown
and Christmas Brook
·How
Clean the Green? Part II. Reports the results from 2001
monitoring for bacteria (fecal coliform) in the
Green River, a major tributary of the Hoosic River in Massachusetts.
Monitoring the Hoosic:
North Branch and Main Stem in 2001.
Hudson River
Basin 1997 Water Quality Assessment Report. Massachusetts Dept.
Water Management data, published in 2000. When you get to the website,
go to the Water Quality Assesments section, and scroll down toHudson
River Basin 1997 Water Quality Assessment Report. http://www.mass.gov/dep/brp/wm/wmpubs.htm
Pollution
and polluted sites
A snapshot of PCBs in the Hoosic River: PCB levels in sediment,
crayfish and brown trout in the Tri-State area. Senior thesis
by Williams College chemistry major Elaine Denny (2004),
is available at Schow Science Library (413-597-4500) or at the HooRWA
office (413-458-2742).
Water Quality
in the Hudson River Basin, NY and Adjacent States, 1992-1995
contains some data about pollutants in the Hoosic. PDF file available
at:
http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/hdsn/report/Circular1165.pdf
Photech site
cleanup in Williamstown, MA, 2005. Article at:
http://www.iberkshires.com/columnist.php?colm_id=12&story_id=18030
Superfund sites:
Pownal Tannery
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/nar1529.htm
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/0/F1A8D3A767CCEDEE8525691F0063F6EC?OpenDocument
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/accomp/success/pownal.htm
http://static.highbeam.com/h/hazardouswastesuperfundweek/july222002/vtremediesforlagoondevisedsitesupdatesbriefarticle/
http://www.maxymillian.com/pownal.html
Superfund sites:
Burgess Brothers (Bennington and Woodford VT) and
Tansitor Electronics (Bennington VT)
www.fws.gov/northeast/pdf/burgess.pdf
Superfund sites:
Clarksburg, MA
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/0/692a058310ae423085256b4200604b7b?OpenDocument
Former Berkshire
Tanning Co., Ashton Ave, North Adams, MA
http://yosemite.epa.gov/r1/npl_pad.nsf/0/b22fd7cd45f6905185256b4200604f9b?OpenDocument
Release of Copper
Sulfate at Hoosick
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/enb2004/20040728/not4.html
Bacteria Sampling
Techniques in the Upper Hoosic
http://www.yale.edu/ccws/SeaGrantInternships/Traister04.htm
Hydropower sites
http://www.lowimpacthydro.org/appdetails.asp?x=16
Hoosic flood chutes
For recent developments, see Spring and Summer 2005 HooRWA
newsletters.
This document discusses a particular discharge permit but contains
information about the need for habitat restoration in Hoosic flood
control structures:
http://www.berkshireplanning.org/download/ADM_SMI%202.11.03%20-%20Final.pdf.
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Flow and Flood Data
United States Geological Survey
Streamflow information for the Hoosic in Williamstown, MA
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=01332500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00062,72020
Streamflow information for the Walloomsac near North Bennington,
VT
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=01334000&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00062,72020
Hoosic River streamflow near Eagle Bridge, NY
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv/?site_no=01334500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,00062,72020
Flood and drought information for Massachusetts and Rhode Island
http://ma.water.usgs.gov/floods/
Peak streamflow
data (historic) for the Hoosic near Williamstown
http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/ma/nwis/peak/?site_no=01332500&agency_cd=USGS&format=html
Advocate Weekly
article, Oct 2005, about historic floods, as pdf file: Link
under construction.
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General Watershed Information
For natural history of the Berkshires: http://cdm.williams.edu.
The Missouri Botanical Garden's Biomes of the World website
has an excellent overview
of rivers and watersheds for general readers at http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/rivers/
National Watershed
Network. A general watershed information site by the Conservation
Technology
Information Center (National Association of Conservation Districts).
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/
EPA Surf Your
Watershed. General information about the Hoosic watershed;
also links to educational material.
http://www.epa.gov/surf/
The Environmental
Protection Agency's Hudson-Hoosic Watershed Profile.
Has links to other information about environmental parameters, related
organizations, etc.,
in the Hudson-Hoosic watershed
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=02020003
Massachusetts
Heritage Living Waters program.
http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhaqua.htm
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Geography and Maps
Location of map for the Hudson-Hoosic unit of Hudson basin.
http://water.usgs.gov/wsc/cat/02020003.html
Mapserver. Great
source! To view printable topographic maps of the watershed (or
anywhere else), go to this website and follow directions.
http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepage/index.cfm
Description
of the surface features of the Hoosic River in the Hudson basin,
including water use, impoundments, etc.
http://ma.water.usgs.gov/basins/hudsonsfw.htm
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Geology
Background information on the formation of the Berkshire Taconic
landscape, Massachusetts.
http://www.lastgreatplaces.org/berkshire/geography/art6358.html
Bedrock geology
of the Hoosic basin in Massachusetts.
http://ma.water.usgs.gov/basins/hudsongw.htm
Overview of
NY Geology for general readers who are curious about landforms and
geology
of the northeast US.
http://gretchen.geo.rpi.edu/roecker/nys/nys_edu.pamphlet.html
The New York
Geology Resource Forum web site, a central source for information
related to
the geology of New York State.
http://newyork.geology-forum.com/
The Vermont
Geological Survey (Division of Geology and Mineral Resources) in
the VT Department of Environmental Conservation. Info on geology,
mineral resources and topography of VT.
http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/geo/vgs.htm
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Natural Communities
For general natural history of the Berkshires,
see http://cdm.williams.edu/
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