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 1 - ALLEGHENY RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN SERIES › Part 802 - ALLEGHENY RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 802.2 - 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 number
as appearing in table I is a consecutively
					 assigned number for each of the specifically designated portions of the
					 streams.
(b)
Waters index
					 number
as appearing in table I shall mean that number which has been
					 applied to any specifically designated waters which appear on the maps set
					 forth in section
					 802.6,
infra.
(c)
Name
as appearing in table I shall mean the name by which the
					 specifically designated waters are generally known and which name appears on
					 the reference maps. In cases of specifically designated waters which have no
					 name, the named tributary to which the unnamed waters are tributary is
					 indicated so far as possible.
(d)
Description
as appearing in table I shall mean a brief
					 indication as to location of the specifically designated waters so that by
					 reference to reference maps such waters may be located without specific
					 reference to their waters index numbers. Entries under column headed
					 "Description" also include designations of sections of a stream to which a
					 particular assignment of a class and standards shall apply.
(e)
Map Ref. No.
The numbers appearing in table I under this heading
						designate the following maps which have been reproduced completely or in part
						in section 802.6,
infra.
Map Ref. No.
Name of
								  quadrangle
Published by
Edition
L-4
Cattaraugus
U.S. Geological Survey
1923
L-5
Ellicottville
U.S. Geological Survey
1924
M-3
Jamestown
U.S. Geological Survey
1905
M-4
Randolph
U.S. Geological Survey
1924
M-5
Salamanca
U.S. Geological Survey
1900
M-6
Olean
U.S. Geological Survey
1898
M-7
Belmont
U.S. Geological Survey
1925
(f)
Class
as appearing in
					 table I, as the letters AA, B or C opposite each specifically designated
					 waters, means class AA, B or C, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701,
supra.
(g)
Standards
as appearing in table I, as the letters AA, B or C
					 opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean the standards of
					 quality and purity estab lished for class AA, B or C, as the case may be, as
					 set forth in Part 701,
supra.
The sumbol (T) after any class
					 designation shall mean that the designated waters are trout waters and that the
					 dissolved oxygen specification for trout waters shall apply thereto. The symbol
					 (TS) after any class designation shall mean that the designated waters are
					 suitable for trout spawning and that the dissolved oxygen specification for
					 trout spawning waters shall apply hereto.
(h)
Tributary
or
tributaries. Tributary
shall mean any stream, lake, pond or
					 other body or surface water which flows into any other stream, lake, pond or
					 other body of surface water. In the table under column headed "Waters Index
					 Number" where no tributaries are mentioned, the specifically designated waters
					 shall include only the stream, pond or other body of water designated by such
					 waters index number; where tributaries are mentioned after the waters index
					 number, the specifically designated waters shall include the stream, pond or
					 other body of water designated by such waters index number and all tributaries
					 and subtributaries thereof which are shown on the reference maps, unless
					 exceptions are expressly stated.
(i) All streams or other bodies of water
					 which appear as lines, to indicate natural waters, on the reference maps
					 herein, and which are not specifically designated in table I, shall be assigned
					 the same classes and standards of quality and purity as the specifically
					 designated waters to which they are directly tributary.
(j) All streams or other bodies of water
					 which are not shown on the reference maps herein shall be assigned to class D,
					 as set forth in Part 701,
supra,
except that any continuous
					 flowing natural stream which is not shown on the reference maps shall have the
					 same classification and assigned standards as the waters to which it is
					 directly tributary.
(k) The
Allegheny River drainage basin
shall be deemed to include the
					 following areas: all land and water areas, the natural surface water drainage
					 from which is directly or indirectly tributary to Allegheny River, within the
					 boundaries of New York State, except Conewango Creek, French Creeks and
					 Brokenstraw Creeks, and Olean Creek.
(l) The term
trout
as used
					 in this Part means any fish in the following genera:
Coregonus,
					 Oncorhyncus, Prosopium, Salmo, Salvelinus
and
Thymallus.