The Ramapo River Watershed
Ramapo River Watershed within the NY/NJ Highlands
Critical Treasures of the New York Highlands
Forest Lake at the headwaters of Arden Brook, tributary of the Ramapo River
Fishing at the Monroe Ponds
Development at the northen Headwaters of the Ramapo River
Orange County Wastewater Treatment Plant
Excessive foam from the Orange County Wastewater treatment plant outfall pipe into the Ramapo River. There is also another outfall pipe from this plant further south.
On May 17, 2007 - a major foam event occurred. despite some tests the source of the foam has not been determined.
The 2nd Outfall from the plant just to the north of the Harriman Train Station on May 17, 2007
Historic Greenwood Furance along Arden (Otter) Brook
A private lake on the Harriman family property.
Tuxedo Park
Tuxedo Falls
"Bubbles" The natural narrow gorge in the 1.3 million year old highlands rock before Tuxedo Lake.
The gorge known as Bubbles in Tuxedo, N.Y.
Damage to a riparian wetland along the Nakoma Brook from a construction site.
Skunk Cabbage trying to grow through the silt deposits.
Sediment from a construction site washing into new storm drains that empty into a stream that is a tributary of the Mahwah River.
A view of Torne Mountain from the construction site for Sterling Mine Estates.
Some old dump sites still await cleanup
Hiking bridge over the Ramapo River in Tuxedo NY
Canoeing the Ramapo in Sloatsburg
Kanawauke Lake in Harriman State Park, Photo by Richard Radderman
Mountain Laurel, Lake Sabago, Harriman Park
Sloats Dam, which furnished water for Sloats Mill in the 19th century. The Dam and the remains of a raceway are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Sloatsburg, N.Y.)
The work of Beavers -who live in Burlingham Memorial Park in Sloatsburg
Sloatsburg 4th graders field trip to Stony Brook
Historic Salt Box House near the Ramapo River site of the Ramapo Works which opened in 1798
The Ramapo River in Torne Valley on a misty morning.
A map produced in 2002 by the Public/Private Partnership to Save Torne Valley
View from the Torne Valley Bridge which appears to be close to the vantage point in the following painting.
Jasper F. Cropsey, Washington's Headquarters, Ramapo Valley, 1851
Ramapo Dam remains
From Picturesque America
After the Great Flood of 1903 in the Hamlet of Ramapo
Cropsey: "Tourn" Mountain, Rockland County, 1850
Environmental education at Flat Rock Rockland Rockland County Park
Environmental History class from Ramapo College at Flat Rock.
The AmeriCorps project, summer 2006
The Annual Sloatsburg Elementary School, 4th Grade field trip at Flat Rock Park.
Red Salamander in the Beaver Brook drainage basin near Torne Mountain, October 3 2009
2009 AmeriCorps Training at Flatrock Park
Torne Brook
Cover for a educational Video produced for the Rockland County Water Quality Committee
Cropsey, By the Ramapo River, 1877
The Ramapo Biodiversity team doing field work in 2004
A small whirlpool in Torne Brook
NY State Class One Wetland near the headwaters of the Mahwah River
Pickerel frogs in a tributary of the Mahwah River at the edge of Harriman Park
The Mahwah River - the largest tributary of the Ramapo River seen here in Montebello, NY
Trout Lily in a Wetland along the Mahwah River in Montebello
A Beaver in the Mahwah River -Montebello, NY
Ramapo College students on a biodiversity hike
Rockland County Water Quality Rapid stream assessment field trip
An eastern Box turtle in the Ramapo Mountains along the Mahwah River
A spring-fed wetland on South Mountain in Ramapo
Ramapo Highlands Biodiversity team members on a field trip in 2004
Professor Chuck Stead looks at invasive Japanese Stilt grass along Torne Brook
Reinactors in 2006 follow the route the French army took through the Ramapo River watershed on their way to the Battle of Yorktown in 1781
Remembering the Rochambeau French Army encampment in Suffern. N.Y.
The Farmer's Market in Suffern
Flooding in Suffern
Does anyone who painted this Ramapo River scene?
Hillburn homestead
Large Air Strippers to treat the entire water production of ten United Water NY wells along the Ramapo River in the Town of Ramapo. Installed as a result of freon spills.
Township of Mahwah, N.J.
Ramapo College students on a field trip along the Masonicus Brook in Mahwah, N.J.
Wetland at the headwaters of the Masonicus Brook, Mahwah, N.J.
Copper's Hawk - A New Jersey Threatened Species in the wetland at the headwaters of the Masonicus Brook
A female Mink in the Masonicus Brook
Mallard Ducks
Floatables on Winter's Pond Mahwah's Constutition Park. The source was probably from Rt. 17 storm water runoff.
Great White Herons
Pollution from a truck stop enters a storm drain along Route 17. the storm drains system flows out from a discharge pipe shown in the next picture.
Stormwater with sedimentation enters the Masonicus Brook from Route 17 in Mahwah, NJ
A colapsing road next to the Masonicus Brook. The results of a lack of a riparian buffer next to the stream.
Water well in Mahwah..
..Next to the Ramapo River.
A Mahwah well is worked on near Ramapo College.
A created wetland in Mahwah
Grave of the famous collie Lad, in Terhune Park. Lad was the hero of two books by Albert P. Terhune.
Terhune Park
The Lilly Pond in Franklin Lakes, NJ
Along the Ramapo River in Oakland
Construction below Pompton Lake dam , 2006. The pipe in the background carries up to 150 million gallons of water per day over to the Wanaque Reservior, when needed.
Flooding along the lower Ramapo River watershed in New Jersey. Photos from the Bergen Record
The Pompton Dam Dam project in the summer of 20006
Confluence of the Ramapo and the Pequannock River - forming the Pompton River.
The Great Falls on the Passaic River. Some water originally from the Ramapo River is in this flow since the Ramapo River watershed forms the northern headwaters of the Passaic River Watershed.
