New Bridge Road to Richardsmere (Lower Octoraro)Class II
6 Miles
Avg Gradient 15 fpm
Max Gradient 30 fpm
New River Ranch Falls
New River Ranch Falls Photo of Falls by Walt Shank taken 7/13/2001 @ Loowwwwww! Gauge Information
Octoraro Creek
River DescriptionNice little section with some trashy and scenic surroundings. This is a kind of a forgotten corner of MD, but it's worth visiting and the river is worth running. It's kind of like the Brandywine without any dams.The first 3 miles are pretty mellow, but things start to get going after the Rt. 1 bridge. Fun Class II rapids result as the Octoraro (which is Native American for "rushing waters") drops down to the Conowingo. Take out on a small side road before the Rt. 222 bridge in the historic mill town of Richardsmere. The Upper Octoraro is categorized as a Pennsylvania stream. StreamTeam Status: verified
Last Updated: 2002-01-20 06:17:18
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Brandywine at Chadds Ford [ PA ] |
Current Conditions
Station Graphs |
| Level Legend: | Running | Below Minimum Recommended Flow | Above Maximum Recommended Flow | Unknown |
| State | River Name/Section | Class | Level | Rel. Level | Updated | |
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| PA | Brandywine Creek— Lenape, PA to Thompson Bridge Road, DE | I | 2.20 ft | med | 12/2 9:30 | |
| DE | Brandywine Creek— Thompson Bridge Road to Market Street | III | 2.20 ft | med | 12/2 9:30 | |
| PA | Brandywine Creek, W. Branch— 1. Icedale Road (T443) to PA 340 | I-III | 2.20 ft | low | 12/2 9:30 | |
| PA | Brandywine Creek, W. Branch— 2. PA 340 to Mortonville | III | 2.20 ft | low | 12/2 9:30 | |
| PA | Brandywine Creek, W. Branch— 3. Mortonville to Lenape | I | 2.20 ft | med | 12/2 9:30 | |
| MD | Octoraro Creek— New Bridge Road to Richardsmere | II | 2.20 ft | low | 12/2 9:30 | |
| PA | Octoraro Creek— Octoraro Lake to New Bridge Rd, MD | I | 2.20 ft | low | 12/2 9:30 |
| AW Gauge ID: | 395 |
| USGS Station: | 01481000 |
| HUC: | 02040205 |
| Latitude: | 39.8697 |
| Longitude: | -75.5936 |
| Class: | 4 |
No guide books for this stream. If you know of a book that describes this stream please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run. User Comments |
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2008-10-02 07:05:50 (61 days ago)
Only run this if there's been 2-3 days of good hard rain. Otherwise you'll be pushing yourself off the rocks. I put in at Freemont Rd. and King pen Rd. and get out at new bridge road. The first leg is flat water with an occational rapid. A tree is across the creek right after the first bend. The second leg (the back side of Cedar Hill quarry) has a few more rapids and can be technicnal if the water is up.
Water guages are at Lee's bridge rd on the south bridge support and the new bridge rd guage is located about 50' south of the bridge.
If you decide to run it out to the Susquehanna River and the water is NOT up you'll be walking and pulling your boat in ankle deep water. Check te Lee's bridge water guage first! It should be over 2.5 feet at a minimum. Edit
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2008-07-29 10:09:54 (126 days ago)
usgs has a station on (octoraro: #01578475) new bridge road. there has been a lot of vandalism at this site. if you see vandalism in progress or damage to our gage please call usgs@ 717-730-6987 thanks Edit
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2007-05-17 12:25:12 (565 days ago)
Daniel Campbell
The New River Ranch Dam was removed in 2005.
The following article talks about the removal and has pictures: http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=2652. The Dam got it's name from the "New River Ranch" country music park on the east side of the river just north of the dam. It was open through the 1950's and early 60's. If you are curious some good info on the park is at this link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1280910
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2004-09-27 21:01:56 (1526 days ago)
tom resch
can anyone give me some info on this creek please
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No rapids entered. If you know names, and locations of the rapids please contact and advise the StreamTeam member for this run. 
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