Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2009
Description of Real Property under the Jurisdiction of the
New York State Canal Corporation
The New York State Canal Corporation has stewardship of,
and jurisdiction over, the NYS Canal System, which is
comprised, in part, of the State-owned waterways
constructed, improved, or designated by authority of the
legislature as canals. The NYS Canal System is further
described as the channel and adjacent banks of the waterways
including canalized rivers and lakes, canal water supply
feeder channels and all appertaining structures including
locks, dams, bridges, terminals, roadways, aqueducts and
other improvements necessary for the proper maintenance and
operation of the Canal System. In total, there are over
1,800 improvements necessary for the operation and
maintenance of the Canal System located on real property
under the Corporation’s jurisdiction.
Above-water acreage for the Canal System, which is
described as the present Champlain, Erie, Cayuga Seneca and
Oswego Canals, northern reservoir lands and remnant formerly
abandoned canal lands is approximately 23,000 acres. A
currently uncalculated amount of additional submerged
(underwater) acres are located along the mainline canal in
the land-cut sections and along portions of the canalized
river sections (IE: the Mohawk, Hudson and Oswego rivers) as
well as “flooded” land containing the Canal reservoirs.
Predominantly, above-water real property located along the
Canal System is described as long, narrow, linear strips
with an average depth of 100-200 feet. Much of the property
is often without landside access other than through
privately-owned upland parcels, located within the
floodplain, and/or contains federal and state wetlands.
Sporadically located throughout the Canal System the
Corporation holds larger parcels typically used for upland
disposal sites for dredged material from the canal or
terminal sites for receipt or unloading of cargo. A map
depicting the Canal System is attached hereto as
Exhibit 1,
and more particularly described as follows:
Champlain Canal: The Champlain Canal is the portion of
the Canal System connecting the easterly end of the Erie
Canal at Waterford, New York with Lake Champlain at
Whitehall, New York spanning approximately 60 miles. There
are over 2,200 above-water acres of real property located
adjacent to the Champlain Canal containing 10 locks,
numerous structures and improvements. The Champlain Canal
portion of the Canal System is shown attached on
Exhibit 2.
Erie Canal: The Erie Canal is the portion of the Canal
System connecting the Hudson River at Waterford, New York
with the Niagara River at Tonawanda, New York. The Erie
Canal is approximately 350 miles long containing numerous
structures and improvements, 36 locks, and approximately
15,000 above-water acres, shown on Exhibits 3 and 4.
Cayuga Seneca Canal: The Cayuga Seneca Canal is the
portion of the Canal System connecting the Erie Canal at
Tyre, New York through Waterloo, New York to the Seneca and
Cayuga Lakes. The Cayuga and Seneca portion contains
numerous structures and improvements, 4 locks and
approximately 1,100 above-water acres of real property. The
Cayuga Seneca Canal portion contains some real property
located in both Ithaca and Montour Falls necessary for
controlling water levels in the Canal System. The Cayuga
Seneca portion of the Canal System is depicted on
Exhibit 6
attached hereto.
Oswego Canal: The Oswego Canal is approximately 30 miles
long beginning on the Erie Canal at Three Rivers, north to
Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. The Oswego Canal is
improved with numerous structures and improvements, contains
8 locks and has approximately 770 acres of un-submerged real
property. This portion of the Canal System is attached as
Exhibit 5.
Northern Reservoirs: North of the Erie Canal, east of the
Oswego canal the Corporation holds in the interest of the
people of the State of New York 5 canal reservoirs located
inside the Adirondack Park and 5 canal reservoirs located
outside the Adirondack Park. The above-water acreage of the
Corporation’s real property located along these 10 northern
reservoirs is approximately 3,000. Generally, the real
property around the reservoirs are described as a “bathtub”
ring whereby, the Corporation owns a narrow swath of
un-submerged land located between an upland abutting owner
and the high-water line of the respective reservoir. On
average, the bathtub ring around these 10 reservoirs has an
average depth of 25-75 feet. The Northern Reservoir real
property improvements are limited to roadways, dams and
other associated critical infrastructure improvements. The
Northern Reservoirs are shown on Exhibit 7.
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
Exhibit 4
Exhibit 5
Exhibit 6
Exhibit 7
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