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From: Poe M'Noke <http://www.rev.net/p...
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:28

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"billnech" <billnech@msn.com> wrote in message
news:<a51q46$40sh0$1@ID-103407.news.dfncis.de>...
> "Tom Hand" <troybuoy@altavista.com> wrote in message
> news:xGPc8.1866$17.1202983@newsfeed1.thebiz.net...

> > 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.

Quite right. I lived at an altitude of 160 feet on Long Island. Not
once in ten years did I have to climb up on the roof to avoid the
incoming tide.

> Actually, the Hudson River below the Troy Dam averages at 1.3 feet above sea
> level.  That's one point three.

So is Troy downstate?

> The Troy Dam raises the water level 14
> feet.  Information is from the New York State Canal Corporation.

How far did the tide reach before the dam blocked it?

-- Poe M'Noke <http://www.rev.net/people/aloe/longisland>

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