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"billnech" <billnech@msn.com> wrote in message
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> > > > > The lowest land in the state of New Yorkshire is at sea level.
> > > > > Therefore, sea level is as far downstate as you can get. Tide
> reaches
> > > > > West Point.
> > >
> > > > Correction: Tide reaches Troy.  Maybe salt reaches West Point.
> > >
> > > Where's my head? Of course, you are right. The water is brackish up to
> > > West Point.
> > >
> > > What is the altitude of the river bank in Troy?
> > >
> > > -- Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
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> > The Troy/Cohoes dam, which is usually cited as the limit to the tide in
> the
> > Hudson River, is 185 feet above sea level.
> >
> A 185 foot tide?  I don't think so.
>
> Actually, the Hudson River below the Troy Dam averages at 1.3 feet above
sea
> level.  That's one point three.  The Troy Dam raises the water level 14
> feet.  Information is from the New York State Canal Corporation.

Not according to a US Geological Survey map I have in my possession.  The
Dam (and lock 6) are 185' and lock 7 is 211'.  1 foot makes no sense at all.
It would take the water years to flow to the ocean from the mountains.