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 13 - NEW YORK CITY WATERS SERIES › Part 891 - JAMAICA BAY DRAINAGE BASIN › Section 891.3 - 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 or portion thereof.
(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 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 waters
					 under consideration by the New York State Conservation Department in its
Biological Survey of the Fresh Waters of Long Island
in 1938,
					 and has been closely followed in connection with the numerical 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 1938 survey but
					 not shown on later editions of maps reproduced herein. Conversely, streams,
					 lakes and ponds not shown on the older maps but appearing on the newer maps are
					 designated by suffix letters a, b, c, etc.
(3) The system as applied to the
					 identification of the designated waters may be outlined as follows: The index
					 used to identify the designated waters is based on the system of numbering the
					 fresh waters draining Long Island proper. The streams of Long Island have been
					 consecutively numbered starting at Fort Hamilton and proceeding in a clockwise
					 direction around the island, such numbers being prefixed by the abbreviation
					 LI. However, certain bays and inlets have not been referenced by this numbering
					 system, but are cited by name and description.
(4) The following table will illustrate how
					 the designated waters may be identified through the use of the waters index
					 system:
Waters index
								  number
Name of waters
Explanation
None assigned
Jamaica Bay Rockaway Inlet Gerritsen Inlet Dead
								  Horse Bay
Waters identified by name and description and not
								  used to index tributaries.
LI 249
Old Mill Creek
The 249th stream encountered on Long Island
								  proceeding in a clockwise direction around the island from Fort Hamilton.
LI 249-2
Ralph Creek
The second tributary proceeding upstream from the
								  mouth of Old Mill Creek.
LI 241-1-P 1023
Gonselyeas Pond
The 1023rd pond or lake encountered in the Long
								  Island waters index system. The body of water is on the first tributary of LI
								  241 (Hook Creek).