| County: |
St. Lawrence |
| Town: |
Clifton |
| USGS Map: |
Newton Falls |
| Waterway: |
Oswegatchie River |
| Latitude: |
N 44o 12'
43.55" |
| Longitude: |
W 74o
59' 55.09" |
| Drop: |
NA |
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Newton Falls is a hamlet in southern St. Lawrence County that took
its name from the waterfall there. This is somewhat of a
unique situation because there is no longer a waterfall there.
That in itself isn't all that unusual because dams have been built
at the site of many waterfalls. In this case, however, there
isn't even a dam there. According to an account provided by
a local resident, the water from the channel where the waterfall
was has been diverted through a penstock. Part of this goes
into the property of a paper mill currently at that location for
power generation and the other part goes into a channel which
flows to a dam just downstream.
These pictures are of the dam that can be viewed from CR 60,
just west of the hamlet and just downstream from where the
waterfalls once were.
The Oswegatchie River flows into the St. Lawrence River in
Ogdensburg, New York.
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