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 6 - HOUSATONIC RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Part 825 - HOUSATONIC RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 825.3 - 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 numbers
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
					 report,
A Biological Survey of the Lower Hudson
					 Watershed-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 survey but not shown on newer maps reproduced herein. Conversely, a few
					 streams not shown on the older maps but appearing on the new maps are
					 designated by the letters a, b, c, etc.
(3) The system as applied to the
					 identification of waters in the Housatonic River drainage basin may be
					 illustrated as follows:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
Mass.
Streams with headwaters in New York State which
								  traverse the New York-Massachusetts boundary numbered consecutively from south
								  to north.
Mass. 5
Green River
The 5th stream flowing into Massachusetts across
								  the New York-Massachusetts boundary
Mass. 5-4
Crause Creek
The 4th tributary of Green River within New York
								  State.
Mass. 5-P1137
No Bottom Pond
The 1137th pond encountered in the lower Hudson
								  watershed.
Conn.
Streams with headwaters in New York State which
								  traverse the New York-Connecticut boundary, numbered consecutively from south
								  to north.
Conn. 15
Tenmile River
The 15th stream flowing into Connecticut across the
								  New York-Connecticut boundary.
Conn. 15-12
Webatuck Creek
The 12th tributary of Tenmile River within New York
								  State.
Conn. 15-12-21
Tributary of Webatuck Creek
The 21st tributary of Webatuck Creek.
Conn. 15-12-21- P1134
Rudd Pond
The 1134th pond encountered in the lower Hudson
								  watershed.
Conn. 15-12-21- P1134-1
Tributary of Rudd Pond
The 1st tributary of Rudd Pond.