Stream Management plans
Upper Rondout Creek Stream Management Plan Summary (PDF)
For the complete plan document including individual Management Unit maps, click here.
Upper Neversink River Stream Management Plan Summary (PDF)
For the complete plan document including individual Management Unit maps, click here.
Chestnut Creek Stream Management Plan (2004 PDF)
Annual Action Plans
Restoration Projects
Each link in this section provides a PDF report of the demonstration phase stream restoration projects initiated by Conservation Districts funded by NYC DEP Stream Management Program.
Habitat Restoration Demonstration Project, W. Branch Neversink
Stream Bank Stabilization Demonstration Project Sundown Creek
Neversink Town Hall Demonstration Site Chestnut Creek
Japanese Knotweed Control Projects
Maps below document Japanese Knotweed control activities in the Upper Rondout Basin. A new control site is underway at County Road 47 in Denning on West Branch Neversink . This effort is supported by a grant from CRISP (Catskill Region Invasive Species Partnership) in conjunction with The Catskill Center in Arkville, N.Y. More information here.
JKW Control Sites Map Chestnut
Japanese Knotweed Project Progress 2010-2014
Japanese Knotweed Awareness Campaign
Bank Erosion Hazard Index Report
The Neversink Stream Management Plan (2010) identified 58 significant erosion sites on the river, with management recommendations for each. A report is now complete on 47 of these sites, all with larger than 1000 square feet of exposed surface area. Erosion risk was indexed at each site and characterized in terms of management considerations such as threats to infrastructure, private structures, and water supply and ecosystem impacts from the loading of fine sediment. The results of this study will be used as one tool to help prioritize restoration efforts in the coming years by the Rondout Neversink Stream Management Program in partnership with NYCDEP. Other considerations are potential benefits and costs of projects, landowner participation, technical complexity including staging and permitting, and prognosis for project sustainability.
Neversink River Bank Erosion Monitoring Report 2012-14
Local Flood Analysis
Final Report: Sundown Local Flood Analysis 2016
Final Report: Claryville Local Flood Analysis 2016
Hemlock Conservation Prioritization Plans
Frost Valley YMCA
Wintoon Waters
Analysis of stakeholder engagement
Final Report: An Evaluation of Environmental Communication Methods in the Rondout and Neversink Watersheds, by Alison Derevensky, SUNY Binghamton.