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Roundout Creek

Rosendale NY

"Rondout Creek is a 63.3-mile-long (101.9 km)^]  tributary of the Hudson River in Ulster and Sullivan counties in New York, United States. It rises on Rocky Mountain in the eastern Catskills, flows south into Roundout Reservoir, part of New York City's water supply network, then into the valley between the Catskills and the Shawangunk Ridge, where it goes over High Falls and finally out to the Hudson at Kingston receiving along the way the Wallkill River

The name of Rondout Creek comes from the fort, or redoubt, that was erected near its mouth. The Dutch equivalent of the English word redoubt (meaning a fort or stronghold) is reduyt. In the Dutch records of Wildwyck, however, the spelling used to designate this same fort is invariably Ronduyt during the earliest period, with the present form rondout (often capitalized) appearing as early as November 22, 1666.

The Roundout Creek became economically important in the 19th century when the Delaware and Hudson  Canal followed closely alongside it from Napanoch to the village of Rondout, now part of Kingston, which grew rapidly as the canal's northern port. Today it is important not only for the reservoir, but for the fishing and other recreational opportunities it provides.

Due to the Wallkill, it drains a vast area stretching over 1,100 square miles (2,850 km²) all the way down to Sussex County NJ. The high mountains around its upper course and the reservoir, which collects water from three others, also add to its flow..."   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondout_Creek

"Garbage Gangsters and Greed http://www.garbagegangstersandgreed.com

"Our children and our children's children will be tending this lethal garden, forever."

In 1997, students of Middletown High School in upstate New York produced a 54 minute documentary about organized crime, political corruption, and the illegal dumping of hazardous waste in the region's landfills.  The students and their teacher have moved on, but the toxic chemicals remain where they were poured, slowly and silently leaching into the groundwater.

Almost 25 years after the high school research project first started, this website reunites some of those who collaborated on Garbage Gangsters and Greed to discuss unresolved and ongoing questions raised by the documentary, as well as broader concerns about the environment, politics, public education, journalism, and civic responsibility. ..."   ...

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