Tocks Island River Gauge (2024)

FAQs

How fast is the Delaware River moving? ›

River current is approximately 2 miles per hour.

The East Branch and West Branch of the Delaware River parallel each other, both flowing in a southwesterly direction.

Average height, you can expect to float at an average speed of 2-3 miles per hour in between rapids.

The deepest point on the Delaware River is located at Narrowsburg in the Town of Tusten, where the Big Eddy runs 113 feet deep. Normal riffle areas are 2-8 feet in depth and pools range from 12-20 feet deep.

The Stikine River, Shtax'héen in Tlingit, or Bitter River, is known for its tremendous size and complex braided waters. It is the fastest free-flowing navigable river in North America.

The fastest flowing part of a river are the rapids. They are formed where the river gradient increases, usually due to the bedrock geology underlying the river. Water actually flows fastest as it cascades down waterfalls, but this water is falling rather than flowing.

George Washington's celebrated Revolutionary War crossing near Trenton, upstream to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and into the forests and farmlands of its headwaters, the river offers something for everyone. The upper Delaware was an obvious choice as one of America's first Wild and Scenic Rivers.

The Pequest River overspills its banks the night of Friday, Jan. 12, 2018, in Belvidere, forcing road closures, sending ice chunks into yards and causing flooding.

Record flooding on the Delaware River occurred in August 1955, in the aftermath of two separate hurricanes traversing the area within less than a week. First, Hurricane Connie produced 10 inches of rain in 48 hours, putting the Delaware and surrounding rivers at flood stage.

The Delaware River is an interstate boundary its entire length - 330 miles. The deepest point of the Delaware is the Big Eddy at Narrowsburg, N.Y., at ~113 ft.

Are there rapids on the Delaware River? ›

Unwind while you paddle and swim along the crystal clear waters of Delaware River through the wildest part of the National Park, through the Wallpack Bend. This section is known for offering many wildlife sightings, and a few small sections of class 1 and 2 rapids.

Narrowsburg is located in the town of Tusten, but the hamlet along the river's edge is known as Narrowsburg because it is the narrowest part of the River.

Swimming in areas of the river outside the life guarded beaches is permitted, but not recommended. Strong currents, sharp drop-offs, and constantly changing river conditions make many areas unsafe for swimming. Wearing a properly fitting life jacket is strongly recommended when swimming.

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The Delaware River was formerly called “Lenape Wihittuck.” Before Europeans arrived to the Delaware River Watershed, the area was home to Native American Lenape tribes.

Some of the rivers even sometimes flow in reverse, especially near the mouth to the other river, during the high waters. A moderately fast river flows at about 5 kilometers per hour (3 miles per hour), while fast streams during the floods exceed 25 kilometers per hour (15 miles per hour).

In straight rivers, the fastest flow is in the middle of the river and around bends the water tends to flow fastest and be deepest around the outer edge of the bend. In other words, the position of the fastest surface flow is displaced towards the outer edge of the bend.

Water traveling along a straight portion of a river normally flows fastest in the middle, and the speed slows to almost zero at the banks. Consider a long stretch of river flowing north, with parallel banks 40 m apart.