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Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Plan

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Publications & Resources

The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program produces publications meant to inform streamside landowners, visitors, and other interested parties about our program activities and to provide guidance on a variety of stream management topics. Below you will find links to our program brochure, annual report, newsletter, our “Stream Guide” factsheet series, and other reports for general audiences. For technical documents and stream management plans, see the links at left.

AWSMP Program Brochure

The Program Brochure provides an overview of AWSMP, its partner agencies and mission. (1.3 MB, pdf)

Annual Plan

  • 2022-2024 AWSMP Action Plan

Adventure Guide

Explore the Ashokan Reservoir watershed and take the adventure guide challenge to receive a badge.

Ashokan Watershed Adventure Guide

Stream Guide Factsheet Series

  • Sediment Management
  • Native Plant Guide
  • Guide to Large Woody Debris Management
  • Guide to Flood Emergency Preparedness

Resources for Streamside Living

Anyone who lives beside a stream knows the joys and challenges of living in close proximity to moving water. This section provides resources for streamside landowners to learn more about living in harmony with streams.

  • Common Invasive Species of Catskill Riparian Areas (1.4 mb, pdf)
  • Guide to Stream Friendly Practices (1.2 mb, pdf)
  • Knotweed_Brochure (1 mb, pdf)
  • Knotweed-Spread the Word Not the Weed (2.8 mb, pdf)
  • Catskill Streams Buffer Initiative

Videos

Links below will open a Vimeo or YouTube channel.

Youth Education

  • Snapshots from the Field – Bennett Science Kids – NEW!
  • The Movement of Stream Sediment
  • Stream Erosion
  • Watershed Animal Spotlight – The American Robin – (Birding in the Watershed blogpost)
  • CCEUC Storytime: Little One and the Water
  • Watersheds and River Systems – (Activity Sheet, Key)
  • Watershed Animal Spotlight – The American Beaver (webpage) – (Video youtube; Beaver Quiz pdf; Beaver Quiz pptx; Drawing a Beaver pdf)
  • Sketching a Site Map – (Activity Sheet)
  • Igenous and Metamorphic Rock
  • Stream Cross-Sections – (Activity Sheet, Key)
  • Stream Features – (Activity Sheet, Key)
  • Sedimentary Rocks
  • Introduction to Road-Stream Crossing Assessment – (Activity Sheet)
  • Introduction to Rocks
  • Stream Ecosystems – Bennett Science Kids
  • The Importance of Streams – Bennett Science Kids
  • All About Water – Bennett Science Kids
  • The Watershed – Bennett Science Kids

Streams 101

  • Stream Channel Stability
  • Reference Reach Survey
  • Hydrograph of Tropical Storm Isaias
  • Bank Erosion Monitoring
  • Stream Restoration Project Monitoring
  • Stream Feature Inventory

Flood Mitigation

  • How to Use a Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
  • How to Read a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)

Ashokan Watershed Conference Series

  • Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species (short)
  • Get to Know Invasive Plants (short)
  • Invasive Species Management – Thompson, Simek, and Rudge (full-length)
  • Invasives: Hemlock Woolly Adelgid and Emerald Ash Borer – Mark Whitmore
  • History and Future of the Esopus Creek Fishery (short)
  • Managing for Sustainable Ecotourism – Senterman (full-length)
  • Sustainable Fisheries – George and Flaherty (full-length)
  • Stream Experts Panel
  • The Rivers Future Generations Will See – George Fowler
  • Building the Ashokan Watershed – Bob Steuding
  • Why We Are Here – Bill Birns (short)
  • Bark Peeling – Bill Birns (short)
  • Cultural History of the Ashokan Watershed – Bill Birns (full-length)
  • Climate Change: Less and More Water – Allan Frei
  • Rivers are Dynamic and Evolve – Roy Schiff
  • Stable Rivers Need Room – Roy Schiff
  • Let’s Talk About Dredging – Roy Schiff
  • Sizing Infrastructure for Increased Flood Flows – Roy Schiff

Newsletters

  • Esopus Creek News Fall 2022
  • The Trib 2022 summer
  • Esopus Creek News Winter 2022
  • Esopus Creek News Summer 2021
  • Esopus Creek News Winter 2021
  • The Trib 2020 Spring Edition
  • Esopus Creek News Summer 2019
  • Esopus Creek News Winter 2019
  • Esopus Creek News 2018 summer
  • The Trib 2017 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2017 winter
  • The Trib 2016 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2016 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2016 winter
  • The Trib 2015 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2015 spring-summer
  • The Trib 2014 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2014 winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2013 summer-fall
  • Esopus Creek News 2013 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2012 fall-winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2012 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2012 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2011 fall-winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2011 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2011 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2010 fall-winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2010 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2010 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2009 fall
  • Esopus Creek News 2009 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2008 fall-winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2008 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2007 fall
  • Esopus Creek News 2007 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2006 fall-winter
  • Esopus Creek News 2006 summer
  • Esopus Creek News 2006 spring
  • Esopus Creek News 2006 winter

Flood Hazard Mitigation

Training and information resources for Town flood advisory committee or board members and others engaged in local flood hazard mitigation.

Local Flood Analysis Reports

Shandaken and Allaben Local Flood Analysis Report (February 2018)

Phoenicia and Mt. Tremper Local Flood Analysis Report (October 2016)

Boiceville and West Shokan Local Flood Analysis Report (August 2017)

  • Boiceville and West Shokan LFA Report
  • Boiceville and West Shokan Appendix A
  • Boiceville and West Shokan Appendix B

Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA) – Training by Dave Murphy, MMI

Navigating Benefit-Cost Analysis (6 mb, pdf)

River Hydraulic Modeling – Training by Roy Schiff, MMI

River Hydraulic Modeling_Part I – Hydraulics (4.4 mb, pdf)
River Hydraulic Modeling_Part II – Model Steps (3.7 mb, pdf)
River Hydraulic Modeling_Part III – Case Studies (4.5 mb, pdf)

How to Use Depth Grids – Training by Phil Eskeli, NYC DEP

How to Use Depth Grids (2.1 mb, pdf)

FEMA Flood Documents

Ulster County Flood Risk Report
Ashokan Watershed Hydrologic Study
Esopus Watershed Hydraulic Study

Websites

At the Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection, learn about the major hatches of insects in Catskill streams, particularly the Esopus Creek.

The Catskill Environmental Research & Monitoring Conference, a gathering of environmental scientists and resource managers, is held every other year in the Ashokan watershed.

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Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program

PO Box 667
3130 State Route 28
Shokan, NY 12481
845 688 3047
845 688 3130 (fax)

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