Platter Kill is a river in Schoharie County in the state of

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. It flows into the

Schoharie Creek Schoharie Creek is a river in New York that flows north from the foot of Indian Head Mountain in the Catskills through the Schoharie Valley to the Mohawk River. It is twice impounded north of Prattsville to create New York City's Schoharie ...

. The Platter Kill's

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accounts for about 1.2 percent of the Schoharie basin.

Hydrology

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has maintained one

stream gauge A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water. Hydrometric measurements of water level surface elevation ("stage") and/or volu ...

along Platter Kill in operation since 1975. The station located northwest of Gilboa, had a maximum discharge of per second on August 28, 2011, as Hurricane Irene passed through the area, and a minimum discharge of per second on March 11, 2015.

References

Rivers of Schoharie County, New York {{US-river-stub