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 10 - LOWER HUDSON RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN SERIES › Part 863 - DRAINAGE BASINS OF STREAMS ENTERING THE HUDSON RIVER IN ALBANY, COLUMBIA, GREENE AND RENSSELAER COUNTIES › Section 863.3 - 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 to each
						specifically designated waters or portions thereof.
(b)
Waters index number
as
					 appearing in table I shall mean that number or abbreviation which has been
					 assigned to any specifically designated waters or portions thereof for the
					 purpose of identification.
(1) The numbering
					 or index system used to identity 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 watersheds of the State. The primary waters of a
					 drainage basin, such as rivers or large lakes are usually referred to by name
					 or an abbreviation. Tributaries of primary waters are consecutively numbered
					 progressing upstream from the mouth. Ponds and lakes are numbered consecutively
					 as they are encountered, such numbers being preceded by the letter P.
					 Tributaries of such lakes and ponds are numbered consecutively as they enter,
					 progressing clockwise around the lake or pond from its outlet or mouth. When
					 isolated lakes and ponds are referenced by a waters index number, it is 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 Lower Hudson watershed in 1936 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 older maps employed by the Conservation Department at the
					 time of its 1936 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 Lower Hudson River drainage basin may be
					 illustrated as follows:
Water index
								  number
Name
Explanation
H
Hudson River
Primary waters within New York State extending
								  upstream from The Battery, New York City.
H-204
Stockport Creek
The 204th tributary entering the Hudson River in
								  New York State numbering upstream from The Battery.
H-204-2
Kinderhook Creek
The 2nd tributary entering Stockport Creek
								  numbering upstream from the mouth.
H-204-2-36
Black River
The 36th tributary entering Kinderhook Creek
								  numbering upstream from the mouth.
H-204-2-36-4
Trib. of Black River
The 4th tributary entering Black River numbered
								  upstream from the mouth.
H-204-2-36-4-P 81
Spring Lake
The 81st pond, lake or reservoir encountered in the
								  biological survey area of the Lower Hudson River watershed, and specifically
								  located in the drainage basin of the Black River.