Owasco River (also known as Owasco Creek, Owasco Lake Outlet, and Owasco Outlet) is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

Cayuga County Cayuga County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 76,248. Its county seat and largest city is Auburn. The county was named for the Cayuga people, one of the Indian tribes in the Iroquois Confed ...

in the state of

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. The river drains

Owasco Lake Owasco Lake is the sixth largest and third easternmost of the Finger Lakes of New York in the United States. It is part of the traditional territory of the Cayuga nation. History Owasco Lake's name may have been derived from the Iroquois word ...

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and flows in a north-northwest direction before converging with the Seneca River north-northwest of Port Byron. The

Owasco River Railway The Owasco River Railway was a switching railroad that provided rail service to several industries on the Owasco River in Auburn, New York, interchanging with the New York Central Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad via trackage rights on the ...

is named after the river. The city of

owns and operates a dam on the river, and empties the effluent from its wastewater treatment plant into the river.

Hydrology

The

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(USGS) maintains one

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along the Owasco River. It has been operation since October 1998, and is located about upstream from Genesee Street in Auburn. The station had a maximum discharge of per second and a gauge height of on April 4, 2005. It had minimum discharge of per second on March 30-31, 1999, and July 22, 1999.

References

Rivers of New York (state) Rivers of Cayuga County, New York {{NewYork-river-stub