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 862 - DRAINAGE BASINS OF STREAMS ENTERING THE HUDSON RIVER IN ORANGE, ULSTER, DUTCHESS AND PUTNAM COUNTIES › Section 862.3 - 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 of this Part an item number is assigned to
						each specifically designated waters or portions thereof.
(b)
Waters index number
as
					 appearing in table I of this Part 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 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 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 the 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 Hudson River drainage basin may be
					 illustrated as follows:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
H
Hudson River
Primary waters within New York State extending
								  upstream from The Battery, New York City.
H-95
Fishkill Creek
The ninety-fifth tributary of the Hudson River in
								  New York State above The Battery (Map O-24sw).
H-95-5
Clove Creek
The fifth tributary entering Fishkill Creek
								  upstream from its mouth (Map O-24sw).
H-95-5-2-P 345k
Lake Valhalla
One of several ponds or lakes encountered between
								  the 345th and 346th pond of the waters index system, and specifically located
								  in the drainage basin of the 2nd tributary of Clove Creek upstream from its
								  mouth (Map O-24sw).