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How deep is the susquehanna river?

Susquehanna runs from lower New York state down thru PA to Chesapeak Bay. This river is basically a mile wide in many places.

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Its depth varies considerably. It is not considered a commercially naviagable waterway. Even the official Susquehanna River Basin website doesn't try to give its depth. http://www.srbc.net/docs/Susq%20River%20Basin%20General%20(11_06).PDF However, there is a fishing guide site here: http://www.susqriverguides.com/fishreport.shtml It will tell you the current depth at various places along the river.
Watershed 27,500 mi² (71,225 km²) Discharge Conowingo Dam, MD - average 40,080 ft³/s (1,135 m³/s) - maximum 410,000 ft³/s (11,610 m³/s) - minimum 2,990 ft³/s (85 m³/s)
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Parts of the river are more than 20 feet deep and other parts are very shallow just 1 to 2 feet deep. The river depth can and does change almost everyday. The river has flooded over the years and there were major floods recently in 1936, 1972, 1996, and 2004.
Its average depth is not that great, but the lower end of it is divided into a couple big reservoirs which are quite deep (behind the Safe Harbor, Holtwood, and Conowingo Dams). Upstream, a lot of the riverbed is hard rock (mostly limestone), and is full of holes. So in one spot it may be no more than waist-deep, and ten feet away will be a 60-foot drop. The hard riverbed is partly why it is so wide; it just doesn't cut into the ground like a river of similar volume might in a different part of the country.
Local legend claims that the name of the river comes from an Indian phrase meaning "mile wide, foot deep," referring to the Susquehanna's unusual dimensions ...
Trivia -- up to early 1800s, the Susquehanna was a main highway for upstate New Yorker pioneers as well as folks from CT to head into western upstate NY. Down the river, it dips a U into the namesake county in PA, then up back into NY. Rafts and canoes are how people and goods were moved into old Montgomery/Tioga County New York. While the river isn't deep, it kinda needed springtime thaw flooding to move things along, so there would be tragic losses on the river from time to time.