Tuckahoe
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Or is it the Great Egg Harbor River watershed? The Great Egg travels farther. Maybe two separate watersheds that drain to the same place.
According to the NJ GeoWeb, the Tuckahoe River is in fact part of the Great Egg Watershed. It starts as a little pee puddle in Dorothy. But even at its headwater, it is considered part of the Great Egg Watershed. The GeoWeb doesn't seem to acknowledge a Tuckahoe River Watershed.
Officially you may be wrong, but in reality, you are right. They are essentially two different river systems that drain to the same bay.
I certainly think areas adjoining that contribute runoff to the Tuckahoe River meet the definition of a watershed.
There are 5 major watershed regions in NJ and 20 watershed management areas within those regions. The Great Egg Harbor River Management Area includes the Tuckahoe River.
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There are 5 major watershed regions in NJ and 20 watershed management areas within those regions. The Great Egg Harbor River Management Area includes the Tuckahoe River.
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Here’s a slide excerpt from my talk, Old Weymouth—A New Look. The Tuckahoe River’s head pond was a spung just west of the “new” Doughtys Tavern rebuilt after the realignment of the Tuckahoe (Cape) trail in ~1801 (solid yellow line). The original tavern, I believe, resided where the earlier Tuckahoe trail (dashed yellow line) was “improved from a beaten path” and intersected the earlier course of the Bears trail (dashed teal line).
Hopkins (1873) not only shows the Tuckahoe’s head pond, but extends a wet corridor (a cripple?) northward to the Punch Bowl, a perfectly round spung across from the Hensel farm. The Tuckahoe head, the Bears head, the Punch Bowl, and Clarks ponds have all long faded from living memory.
Hopkins, G.M., 1873: Combined Atlas of the State of New Jersey and the City of Newark. Newark, NJ: G.M. Hopkins & Co. 120 pp.
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Hopkins (1873) not only shows the Tuckahoe’s head pond, but extends a wet corridor (a cripple?) northward to the Punch Bowl, a perfectly round spung across from the Hensel farm. The Tuckahoe head, the Bears head, the Punch Bowl, and Clarks ponds have all long faded from living memory.
Hopkins, G.M., 1873: Combined Atlas of the State of New Jersey and the City of Newark. Newark, NJ: G.M. Hopkins & Co. 120 pp.
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