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 15 - ST. LAWRENCE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Part 910 - ST. LAWRENCE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 910.3 - 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 St. Lawrence River drainage basin in 1930. This report
					 covered all streams in the basin with the exception of the Raquette River which
					 was covered by a subsequent Conservation Department report in 1933, and the
					 Oswegatchie River was covered by a report in 1931.
(3) The 1930 report 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 1930 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.
(4) The system as applied to
					 the identification of waters in the St. Lawrence River drainage basin may be
					 illustrated as follows:
(i) For purposes of
					 convenience and report presentation of the recommended classification tables,
					 the tables are divided into three sections. The designations and descriptions
					 of these three sections are:
(a) St. Lawrence
					 River-main stem,
(b) SL
					 streams-streams tributary to United States section of the St. Lawrence River,
					 and the
(c) SLC streams-streams
					 tributary to Canadian section of St. Lawrence River. The SLC streams traverse
					 the United States-Canadian border before discharging into the St. Lawrence
					 River within Canada.
(5) The following is a specific example of
					 the waters index system:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
SL
St. Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River, a primary waterway.
SLC-32
St. Regis River
The 32nd tributary of the St. Lawrence River
								  numbering from the mouth upstream and numbering only those tributaries that
								  drain portions of this involved drainage basin and cross the United
								  States-Canadian border before discharging into the St. Lawrence River within
								  Canada.
SLC-32-40
Dexter Lake Outlet
The 40th tributary of the St. Regis River numbering
								  from the Canadian border upstream.
SLC-32-40-6
Unnamed stream
The 6th tributary of tributary 40 of the St. Regis
								  River.
-P164
Dexter Lake
Pond number 164 in the St. Lawrence drainage
								  basin.
SLC-32-40-6 -164-2
Unnamed stream
The second tributary of Dexter Lake numbering
								  clockwise from the outlet.
SLC-32-40-P164 -6-2(0.2)
A specific point
This identifies a point located on trib. 2 of
								  Dexter Lake 0.2 of a mile upstream measured along the stream bed.