King Brook step pools

King Brook

Place name or River name: 

Dubuque State Forest, Hawley

Watershed: 

Chickley River, into Deerfield Watershed

Latitude: 

42.559600

Longitude: 

-72.946800

Description/Comments: 

This reach is typical of high gradient, forested headwater streams that have a step-pool shape. Boulders or fallen tree limbs span much or all of  the channel. Water flows over these obstructions,  in a series of small stepped waterfalls into the next dowstream pools.  They are commeon in gradients ranging from 5 to 20%.