Yards Creek is a tributary of the
Paulins Kill located along the eastern face of
Kittatinny Mountain
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in
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in northwestern
New Jersey
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in the United States. It rises along Kittatinny Mountain near Catfish Pond in
Hardwick Township, flowing into the Yards Creek Reservoir and Lower Yards Creek Reservoir at
Yards Creek Generating Station
Yards Creek Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Blairstown and Hardwick Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.
The facility is owned bREV Renewables which purchased it from Public Service Enterprise Group ...
near
Blairstown. The creek flows into the
Paulins Kill near the hamlet of Hainesburg in
Knowlton Township. The
Appalachian Trail
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passes within its watershed and crosses the creek as it traverses the ridgeline of Kittatinny Mountain.
Tributaries of the Delaware River
Paulins Kill watershed
Rivers of New Jersey
Rivers of Warren County, New Jersey
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