Pascack Brook is a
tributary
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of the
Hackensack River
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in
Bergen County
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,
United States
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.
History
At least one late 18th-century map calls the brook "Great Pascack River." Its tributary
Musquapsink Brook is shown as "Little Pascack River."
The name "Pascack River" also occurs in an 1876 map of the area.
Course and watershed
Pascack Brook forms a region known as the
Pascack Valley. The brook is
dam
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med to form the
Woodcliff Lake Reservoir in the town of
Woodcliff Lake and
Mill Pond
A mill pond (or millpond) is a body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill.
Description
Mill ponds were often created through the construction of a mill dam or weir (and mill stream) across a waterway.
In many places, the co ...
(aka Silver Lake) in
Park Ridge, New Jersey. The Pascack formerly flowed directly into the Hackensack River, but now ends at the
Oradell Reservoir short of its historical juncture with the Hackensack.
A dam on Pascack Brook in
Spring Valley,
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, impounded
Lake Hyenga until it collapsed during
Hurricane Floyd
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in September 1999. Heavy flooding resulted downstream. The dam was not rebuilt.
Tributaries
''(Listed from mouth to source)''
*
Musquapsink Brook
* Tandy Brook
*
Bear Brook
* Mill Brook
* Muddy Brook
See also
*
List of rivers of New Jersey
*
Pascack Brook County Park
References
External links
U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream gaging stations
Rivers of Bergen County, New Jersey
Hackensack River
Pascack Valley
Rivers of New Jersey
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