Pascack Brook is a
tributary
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of the
Hackensack River
The Hackensack River is a river, approximately 45 miles (72 km) long, in the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, emptying into Newark Bay, a back chamber of New York Harbor. The watershed of the river includes part of the suburba ...
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 Pascack Valley is the name for a region of New Jersey, United States, contained within Bergen County. It is named for the Pascack Brook. The region consists of eight municipalities: Montvale, Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, Westwoo ...
. The brook is
dammed to form the
Woodcliff Lake Reservoir in the town of
Woodcliff Lake. The Pascack formerly flowed directly into the Hackensack River, but now ends at the
Oradell Reservoir
The Oradell Reservoir is a reservoir formed by the Oradell Reservoir Dam on the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Geography
The Oradell Reservoir Dam is located primarily in the borough of Oradell, but the 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
This is a list of streams and rivers of the U.S. state of New Jersey.
List of New Jersey rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (''i.e.,'' branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in t ...
*
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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