The Arthur Kill, seen from Staten Island, with Carteret, New Jersey in the background. A small creek is visible in the foreground.
The Arthur Kill is shown in red, between New Jersey and Staten Island. It connects Raritan Bay on the south with Newark Bay on the north
The Arthur Kill (kill is old Dutch word for "water channel") is a tidal strait separating Staten Island from mainland New Jersey, USA. Throughout history, it has also been known as Staten Island Sound.
The channel is approximately 10 miles long and connects Raritan Bay on its south end with Newark Bay on the north. Along the New Jersey side it is primarily lined with industrial sites, whereas on the Staten Island side, it is primarily lined with salt marshes.
A heavily used marine channel, it provides access for ocean-going container ships to Port Newark and to industrial facilities along the channel itself.
The channel is dredged periodically to a depth between 35 and 37 feet and a width of 600 feet to maintain its functionality for commercial ship passage.
Because of the complex nature of the tides in New York Harbor near the mouth of the Hudson River, the hydrology of the Arthur Kill is still an open subject. In particular, the net flow of the channel is not well established.
The ArthurKill itself is a tidal strait connecting the Kill van Kull and Newark Bay to the north with Raritan Bay and the Raritan River to the south.
The ArthurKill watershed is bounded on the south and west by the terminal moraine of the last glaciation that reached its southernmost extent in the region at Perth Amboy.
At the corner of the ArthurKill and Kill van Kull, Bridge Creek is a tidal creek with an island of intertidal marsh, shoals, bars, and flats and grasslands on the adjacent vacant uplands.
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