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Otter Kill

Field	Value
name	Otter Kill
name_etymology	From the animal of that name
image	Otter Kill in Hamptonburgh, NY.jpg
image_caption	Otter Kill at Otter Road in Hamptonburgh
map	Moodnacreekmap.png
map_caption	Otter Kill within the Moodna Creek watershed
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	New York
subdivision_type3	Region
subdivision_name3	Hudson Valley
subdivision_type4	County
subdivision_name4	Orange
subdivision_type5	Towns
subdivision_name5	Goshen, Hamptonburgh, Blooming Grove
source1	Goshen Reservoir#2
source1_location	Town of Goshen
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation	460 ft
mouth	Confluence with Cromline Creek at Moodna Creek
mouth_location	N of Washingtonville
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation	300 ft
river_system	Moodna Creek
tributaries_right	Black Meadow Creek

Otter Kill is a 16.0 mi tributary of Moodna Creek that flows through central Orange County, New York, in the United States. Via the Moodna, which it forms at a confluence with Cromline Creek north of the village of Washingtonville, its waters eventually reach the Hudson River.

The Otter Kill flows primarily through rural, undeveloped areas of the towns of Goshen, Hamptonburgh and Blooming Grove. Development pressures in those areas have led the state Department of Environmental Conservation to classify it and a major tributary, Black Meadow Creek, as threatened streams.

Course

The Otter Kill traces a semicircular route through the northwestern Moodna valley. It rises from the north end of Goshen's Reservoir #2 and flows generally in that direction, under NY 17. Two miles from its source, in the swamps east of the village of Goshen, it receives its largest tributary, Black Meadow Creek. It continues in the same direction, through more swamps surrounded by farmland, into the town of Hamptonburgh.

Just east of the Campbell Hall Metro-North station, the stream begins to bend toward the east. After crossing under the tracks and then NY 207 just east of the hamlet of Campbell Hall, the largest settlement the Otter comes near, it widens and turns even more sharply to the east, paralleling Route 207.

Confluence with Cromline Creek (top), creating Moodna Creek (left)

At Brown's Pond near the hamlet of Rock Tavern, it goes over a small dam, crosses under Routes 207 and 208, then turns to the south, paralleling the latter highway. It crosses under the Port Jervis Line once again. Just after flowing under Route 208 again at an eastward bend of the highway, it meets Cromline Creek and the two continue as Moodna Creek to the Hudson at Cornwall.

References

U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map], accessed October 3, 2011
Corey, Geri. (October 9, 2008). "State says development threatens two streams". Straus Newspapers.

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