The Village of Saugerties is situated at the base of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.
The small community sits at the confluence of Esopus Creek and the Hudson River, and several streams rush down to feed the Blue Mountains Reservoir.
Water resources aren’t scarce here, but century-old infrastructure, seasonal spikes in demand and overlapping municipal boundaries present challenges of their own.
This is an old village. The name “Saugerties” is roughly the Dutch equivalent to “sawyers,” a tribute to various sawmills that were established on the local creek in the 1600s. The village was incorporated in 1831 under a different name
