Template:Did you know nominations/Saw Kill (Hudson River)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:01, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Saw Kill (Hudson River)[edit]

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Falls along the protected section of stream

... that the 1841 conservation agreement between the owners of the land where the Saw Kill drains into the Hudson River (falls, pictured) is one of the earliest in American history? Source: "In 1841, Montgomery Place's Louise Livingston and her neighbor to the north, Robert Donaldson, entered into an agreement to purchase the Sawkill ravine and to preserve its beauty by vowing never to develop it for industrial uses ... In 1841, Montgomery Place’s Louise Livingston and her neighbor to the north, Robert Donaldson, entered into an agreement to purchase the Sawkill ravine and to preserve its beauty by vowing never to develop it for industrial uses." The Sawkill Creek – Preserving and Enhancing Nature's Beauty", Historic Hudson Valley.

Reviewed: Full Fact
Comment: I apologize for getting this in a little late (actually, as I type, it's still July 2 for almost another hour), due to traveling on this North American patriotic holiday weekend. It's not quite finished and I have no date request this time, so we're not in a rush here. I may even have some more hooks as this develops.

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 03:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC).

OK, now that I've had the chance to do more work on it, here are some ALTs:

ALT1: ...that U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt's enthusiasm for the outdoors may have been inspired by his explorations of the Saw Kill (falls, pictured) near a home his parents rented when he was a child? Source: "As a child in the 1860s, the future conservationist and president Theodore Roosevelt spent a few summers on an estate his parents rented in Barrytown, close to Montgomery Place ... Some historians claim that his lifelong interest in the out-of-doors and the natural world was awakened here ... The young Roosevelt documented his ramblings in his diary and through letters written to his nanny back home in Manhattan. He found the Sawkill a fascinating place both scientifically and aesthetically, instilling in him a sense of place."The Sawkill Creek – Preserving and Enhancing Nature's Beauty", Historic Hudson Valley.

ALT2: ... that Bard College uses the Saw Kill (falls, pictured) for both drinking water and wastewater discharge? Source: Drinking Water and Water Conservation, Bard College Office of Sustainability; Water, Bard College Office of Sustainability. "The Saw Kill provides the College with its drinking water. Our waste water is returned to the Saw Kill after it is treated at our sewer treatment plant." Daniel Case (talk) 16:46, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

This article is new enough and plenty long enough. The image is appropriately licensed and the original hook fact is sourced inline, and I like this hook best. The article is neutral and I detected no policy issues. QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:40, 16 July 2017 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but added a "citation needed" tag to this sentence in an otherwise uncited paragraph: it is the third-longest Hudson tributary in Dutchess County after the Fishkill and Wappingers creeks. Yoninah (talk) 20:23, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Since I had trouble getting The National Map to provide the information for the other streams, I decided to take that out for now; in fact in retrospect it probably isn't such a big wow. I have replaced it with a footnote that supports the rest of the graf.

Thanks for the compliment about the pictures; I really like how the waterfall one turned out. Daniel Case (talk) 15:56, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth's review. Yoninah (talk) 17:58, 1 August 2017 (UTC)