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 9 - LAKE ONTARIO DRAINAGE BASIN SERIES › Part 847 - LAKE ONTARIO DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 847.3 - Definitions and conditions

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 identify specific waters of New York State was adopted 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 such as rivers or large lakes are usually referred to by name or
					 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 or 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 Lake Ontario watershed in 1939 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 1939 survey, but not shown on newer maps reproduced herein.
					 Conversely, a few streams and ponds 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 Lake Ontario drainage basin may be illustrated
					 as follows:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
Ont.
Lake Ontario
Primary waters.
Ont. 99
Fourmile Creek
The 99th tributary entering Lake Ontario numbering
								  clockwise from the mouth at Tibbetts Point.
Ont. 107
Shipbuilders Creek
The 107th tributary entering Lake Ontario numbering
								  clockwise from the mouth at Tibbetts Point.
Ont. 107-P 112a
Unnamed Pond
Indicates that this body of water is within or
								  adjacent to Shipbuilders Creek sub-basin and follows the 112th pond encountered
								  in the waters index system.