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 12 - NASSAU COUNTY WATERS › Part 885 - NASSAU COUNTY WATERS › Section 885.3 - 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 or abbreviation assigned to any
					 designated waters or portion 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 watersheds of the State. The primary waters of a drainage area, such
					 as a river, large lake, bay or sound is usually referred to by name or an
					 abbreviation. Tributaries of primary river waters are consecutively numbered
					 progressing upstream from the mouth. Tributaries of primary lake, bay or sound
					 waters are consecutively numbered in a clockwise order from a defined point,
					 usually the outlet of the primary waters. Subtributaries are numbered as
					 encountered along the tributary proceeding from its mouth to the source, and in
					 like manner all of its other stream courses are so numbered. Ponds and lakes
					 are numbered in the order they are encountered within the system. Tributaries
					 of such lakes and ponds are numbered consecutively as they enter, progressing
					 clockwise around the lake or pond from its outlet or mouth. The numbers
					 assigned to such lakes and ponds are prefixed by the letter P. When isolated
					 lakes and ponds are referenced by a waters index number, it it 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 report,
A
					 Biological Survey of the Fresh Waters of Long Island
-1938, 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 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) There are several primary
					 indices used to identify the designated waters. Those waters that drain Long
					 Island proper are identified by waters index numbers prefixed by a hyphen.
					 Those waters within the designated drainage basin that have not been assigned
					 waters index numbers, such as Long Island Sound and Atlantic Ocean, have been
					 identified by an abbreviation of their name. Waters identified by a waters
					 index number or abbreviation, prefixed by a hyphen, are tributary to the
					 nearest preceding waters which have been identified by an abbreviation which is
					 not prefixed by a hyphen.
(4) The
					 system as applied to the identification of waters in the drainage basin of
					 Nassau County may be illustrated as follows:
Waters index number
Name of waters
Explanation
LIS AO
Long Island Sound Atlantic Ocean
Primary waters identified by an abbreviation and
								  not prefixed by a hyphen.
HH MB
Hempstead Harbor Manhasset Bay
These abbreviations are not directly used to index
								  tributaries.
LIS-42
Frost Creek
The 42nd stream encountered on Long Island
								  proceeding in a clockwise direction around the island from Fort Hamilton.
OBH-MNC-45-P 152
Lower Francis Pond
The 152nd pond or lake encountered in the
								  Conservation Department's report,
A Biological Survey of the Fresh
								  Waters of Long Island.