12 Facts About Mohawk River

Mohawk River is a 149-mile-long river in the U S state of New York.

Mohawk River's source is at the confluence of the West Branch and East Branch in north-central Oneida County.

The lower part of the Mohawk River has five permanent dams, nine movable dams, and five active hydropower plants.

Mohawk River watershed drains a large section of the Catskill Mountains, the Mohawk River Valley proper, and a section of the southern Adirondack Mountains.

Much of the main trunk of the Mohawk River sits in Cambro-Ordovician carbonates and Middle Ordovician sandstones and shales.

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Mohawk River has long been important to transportation and migration to the west as a passage through the Appalachian Mountains, between the Catskill Mountains and Allegheny Plateau to the south and the Adirondack Mountains to the north.

The Mohawk River Valley allowed easier passage than going over the mountains to the north or south of the valley.

Mohawk River followed the river upstream from Albany for a distance of 100 miles, including all the territory of the Mohawks.

Mohawk River has a relatively long record of flooding that has been documented back to settlement in the 17th century.

The most severe flood of record on the main trunk of the Mohawk River was the spring breakup flood that occurred from 27 to 28 March 1914.

Mohawk River saw significant flooding during the weeks between August 21, 2011, and September 5, 2011, due to torrential rains experienced from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.

The next day, the Mohawk River flooded the valley, residents were stranded and without power for about a week.