Sturgeon Pool

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| name = Sturgeon Pool

| image = Sturgeon Pond.jpg

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| location = Ulster County, New York

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| type = reservoir

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| inflow = Wallkill River

| outflow = Wallkill River

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| shore = {{cvt|4.4|mi|abbr=on}}

| elevation = {{cvt|131|ft|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/58909.html|title=Sturgeon Pool|access-date=17 March 2019|publisher=Department of Environmental Conservation New York State}}

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Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.

It was created by damming the Wallkill River just above its confluence with Rondout Creek for hydroelectricity (thus the flow of the Wallkill that reaches the Rondout is greatly attenuated, making the Wallkill a rare instance of a river that drains into a creek).

Writer J MacKinnon says that due to damming of the water supplies and overfishing, there are now no sturgeon in Sturgeon Pool.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1RyqAAAAQBAJ&q=%22Sturgeon+Pool%22&pg=PA168 | title=The Once and Future World: Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be | publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | author=MacKinnon, J. B. | year=2013 | isbn=9780544103054}}

Fish found in the lake include; smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, carp, bluegill, black crappie and white perch.

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Category:Reservoirs in Ulster County, New York

Category:Wallkill River

Category:Reservoirs in New York (state)

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