New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 6 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION › Chapter X - DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES › Subchapter B - CLASSES AND STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND PURITY ASSIGNED TO FRESH SURFACE AND TIDAL SALT WATERS › Article 4 - DELAWARE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Part 815 - DELAWARE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 815.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
The several terms, words or phrases hereinafter mentioned
						shall be construed as follows:
(a)
Item No.
In table I an item number is assigned consecutively to
						each specifically designated waters.
(b)
Waters index number
as
					 appearing in table I shall mean that number assigned to any designated waters
					 for the purpose of identification.
(1) The
					 numbering or index system used to identify specific waters of New York State
					 was adapted from that used by the New York State Conservation Department in its
					 biological survey series of reports on the watersheds of the State. The primary
					 waters of a drainage basin, a stream or large lake, is referred to by name or
					 abbreviation. Ponds and lakes are numbered consecutively as they are
					 encountered, such number being preceded by the letter P. This system also
					 involves the consecutive numbering of tributaries as they enter a stream,
					 progressing upstream from the mouth. Tributaries of lakes or ponds are numbered
					 consecutively as they enter, progressing clockwise around the lake or pond from
					 its outlet or mouth. Isolated lakes and ponds are referenced by a waters index
					 number merely for convenience of their identification and location within a
					 subdrainage basin, and it is not necessarily indicative of their being
					 tributary to any waters to which no surface connection is shown on the
					 reference maps.
(2) This system was
					 applied to the basin under consideration by the Conservation Department in its
					 biological survey of the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds in 1935 and has
					 been closely followed in connection with the identification of the waters with
					 the following exceptions: Some of the stream numbers do not run consecutively
					 due to the omission of streams originally shown on the older maps employed by
					 the Conservation Department at the time of its 1935 survey but not shown on
					 newer maps reproduced herein. Conversely, a few streams not shown on the older
					 maps but appearing on the newer maps are designated by the letters a, b, c,
					 etc.
(3) The system as applied to
					 the identification of waters in the Delaware River Drainage Basin may be
					 illustrated as follows:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
D
Delaware River
Primary waters within New York State extending
								  upstream from Tri-State Rock to the confluence of the East Branch and West
								  Branch Delaware River.
D-1
Neversink River
The first tributary entering the Delaware River
								  upstream from Tri-State Rock.
D-71
West Branch
The 71st (and last) tributary entering the Delaware
								  River Delaware River upstream from Tri-State Rock.
D-71-61
Little Delaware River
The 61st tributary entering West Branch Delaware
								  River upstream from its mouth.
D-71-61-7-P 420
Lake Delaware
The 420th pond encountered in the waters index
								  system located on the watershed of the watershed of the 7th tributary upstream
								  from the mouth of Little Delaware River.