Saddle River (Passaic River tributary)

For the municipalities named for the river, see Saddle River, New Jersey and Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

Map of the Passaic/Hackensack watershed.

The Saddle River flows south through much of Bergen County, New Jersey. The river runs through densely populated suburban areas for much of its course. The river takes its name from the river near Saddell in Argyll and Bute in Scotland.[1]

The headwaters of the Saddle River are in the piedmont terrain of Rockland County, in southern New York state. Streams from this area flow south, forming the Saddle River at their confluence, two miles south of the New York state border, in the town of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

From its feeder streams in Upper Saddle River and the source in Airmont, New York, the Saddle River continues south for 16.3 miles, passing through the towns of Saddle River, Waldwick, Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Paramus, Fair Lawn, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, Lodi, Garfield, and Wallington.

The Ho-Ho-Kus Brook, a major tributary, joins the Saddle River at the Dunkerhook area of Saddle River County Park. Their confluence marks the border of four Bergen County towns: Ridgewood, Paramus, Glen Rock and Fair Lawn.

The terminus of the Saddle River is at Garfield and Wallington, where the waterway empties into the Passaic River. The Passaic River drains at Newark Bay and via Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull to the Atlantic Ocean. The northern part of the Saddle River watershed drains an area between the Ramapo River watershed to the west, and the Hackensack River watershed to the east.

Fish species in the Saddle River include largemouth bass, Brown bullhead, yellow bullhead, longnose dace, white sucker, tessellated darter, blacknose dace, various species of sunfish, American eel, carp and different varieties of trout.[2][3] Most of the trout are stocked by the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, although the uppermost reaches of the river and some of its tributaries hold wild brown trout. These wild trout are threatened by increased residential use of lawn fertilizer which contributes to algae and weed growth.

## Tributaries

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* Ho-Ho-Kus Brook

## See also

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* List of rivers of New Jersey

## References

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1. ^ "About the City of Garfield". City of Garfield. Retrieved 28 December 2016. "... was named by two Scotsmen who came from Argilshire in Scotland, after a river Sadel, in Scotland"
2. ^ https://www.nj.gov/dep/wms/bfbm/download/njs11119r3.pdf
3. ^ https://www.nj.gov/dep/wms/bfbm/download/fibi007_2018.pdf

## External links

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* U.S. Geological Survey: NJ stream gaging stations
* Flood-Inundation Maps for the Saddle River in Ho-Ho-Kus Borough, the Village of Ridgewood, and Paramus Borough, New Jersey, 2013 United States Geological Survey

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Passaic River watershed

Tributaries|

* Black Brook
* Canoe Brook
* Cory's Brook
* Dead River
* Diamond Brook
* First River
* Foulerton's Brook
* Great Brook
* Goffle Brook
* Little Diamond Brook
* Loantaka Brook
* McDonalds Brook
* Molly Ann Brook
* Peckman River
* Pompton River
* Pequannock River
* Wanaque River
* Ramapo River
* Mahwah River
* Primrose Brook
* Rockaway River
* Whippany River
* Saddle River
* Ho-Ho-Kus Brook
* Salt Brook
* Second River
* Slippery Rock Brook
* Slough Brook
* Spring Garden Brook
* Stevenson Brook
* Deep Voll Brook
* Third River
* Weasel Brook

Lakes|

* Boonton Reservoir
* Butler Reservoir
* Canoe Brook Reservoir
* Cedar Lake
* DeForest Lake
* Estling Lake
* Franklin Lake
* Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
* Greenwood Lake
* Indian Lake
* Lake Kinnelon
* Lake Tappan
* Monksville Reservoir
* Mountain Lake
* Oradell Reservoir
* Point View Reservoir
* Pompton Lake
* Ramapo Lake
* Rainbow Lake
* Splitrock Reservoir
* Sterling Lake
* Verona Lake
* Wanaque Reservoir
* White Meadow Lake
* Woodcliff Lake Reservoir

Towns|

| New Jersey|

* Allendale
* Belleville
* Berkeley Heights
* Bernards
* Bernardsville
* Bloomfield
* Bloomingdale
* Boonton Borough
* Boonton Township
* Bridgewater
* Butler
* The Caldwells
* Caldwell
* North Caldwell
* West Caldwell
* Carlstadt
* Cedar Grove
* The Chathams
* Chatham Borough
* Chatham Township
* Clifton
* Denville
* Dover
* East Hanover
* East Newark
* East Rutherford
* Elmwood Park
* Essex Fells
* Fair Lawn
* Fairfield Township
* Far Hills
* Florham Park
* Franklin Lakes
* Garfield
* Glen Ridge
* Glen Rock
* Hackensack
* Haledon
* Hanover
* Harding
* Hardyston
* Harrison
* Hasbrouck Heights
* Hawthorne
* Hillsdale
* Hohokus
* Jefferson
* Kearny
* Kinnelon
* Lincoln Park
* Little Falls
* Livingston
* Lodi
* Long Hill
* Lyndhurst
* Madison
* Mahwah
* Maywood
* Mendham Borough
* Mendham Township
* Midland Park
* Millburn
* Mine Hill
* Montclair
* Montvale
* Montville
* Morris Plains
* Morris Township
* Morristown
* Mount Arlington
* Mountain Lakes
* New Providence
* Newark
* North Arlington
* North Haledon
* Nutley
* Oakland
* The Oranges
* East Orange
* Orange
* South Orange
* West Orange
* Paramus
* Parsippany–Troy Hills
* Passaic
* Paterson
* Pequannock
* Pompton Lakes
* Prospect Park
* Ramsey
* Randolph
* Ridgewood Village
* Ringwood
* Riverdale
* Rochelle Park
* Rockaway Borough
* Rockaway Township
* Roseland
* Roxbury Township
* Rutherford
* Saddle Brook Township
* Saddle River
* South Hackensack
* Sparta
* Summit
* Totowa
* Upper Saddle River
* Vernon
* Verona
* Victory Gardens
* Waldwick
* Wallington
* Wanaque
* Warren
* Washington
* Wayne
* West Milford
* Wharton
* Woodcliff Lake
* Woodland Park
* Wood-Ridge
* Wyckoff

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New York|

* Hillburn
* Monroe
* Ramapo
* Suffern
* Tuxedo
* Tuxedo Park

Crossings|

* Lower Passaic River
* Avondale Bridge
* Belleville Turnpike Bridge
* Bridge Street Bridge
* Clay Street Bridge
* Dock Bridge
* Eighth Street Bridge
* Gregory Avenue Bridge
* Harry Laderman Bridge
* Jackson Street Bridge
* Lincoln Highway Passaic River Bridge
* Lyndhurst Draw
* Market Street Bridge
* Monroe Street Bridge
* Newark Drawbridge
* Passaic Street Bridge
* Pulaski Skyway
* PD Draw
* Union Avenue Bridge
* William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge
* Upper Passaic River
* Arch Street Bridge
* Gladstone Branch
* Hillery Street Bridge
* Main Line
* Montclair-Boonton Line
* Morristown and Erie Railway
* Morristown Line
* Newark-Pompton Turnpike
* Passaic River Bridge
* Patriots' Path Footbridge
* Sixth Avenue Bridge
* Straight Street Bridge
* West Broadway Bridge
* West Park Footbridge

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