The Tioughnioga River Local Local Waterfront Revitalization Program

It is a comprehensive look issues affecting the River, and is intended to serve as a benchmark for the current status of the
Corridor. It is also intended to be used as a basis for formulating actions, activities, and policies to preserve, protect, enhance, develop, and revitalize the Tioughnioga River Corridor.

Flowing southward from Onondaga County to the north, the Tioughnioga River in Cortland County consists of the East Branch and West Branch, which join in central Cortland County to form the Main Branch. Eventually, the Tioughnioga flows into the Otselic River near Whitney Point, just south of Cortland County.

The Tioughnioga River is part of the headwaters of the Susquehanna River basin. The Tioughnioga River corridor was created as a result of the glacial epoch, or Pleistocence Ice Age, that carved the beautiful and scenic Finger Lakes Region: its wonderful lakes, rivers, tributaries, valleys, ridges, and hills. As the melting waters made their way from the Finger Lakes, the Tioughnioga and Susquehanna River basins were formed among the glacial valleys. The City of Cortland, Cortland County’s sole city, rests at the confluence of the East and West Branches of the River and at the convergence of seven of the glacial valleys. Its location and elevation (some 1,129 feet above sea level) has dubbed it the “Crown City of New York”. Eventually the Tioughnioga and Susquehanna Rivers flow some 400 miles to the Chesapeake Bay and the Harve de Grace area of Maryland.

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