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 18 - UPPER EAST RIVER AND LONG ISLAND SOUND WITHIN QUEENS, BRONX AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES
Part 935 - UPPER EAST RIVER AND LONG ISLAND SOUND WITHIN QUEENS, BRONX AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES
Section 935.6 - Table I
Universal Citation: 6 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 935.6
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024
TABLE I
CLASSIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS OF QUALITY AND PURITY ASSIGNED TO FRESH SURFACE WATERS AND TIDAL SALT WATERS INCLUDING CERTAIN TIDAL WATERS OF THE INTERSTATE SANITATION DISTRICT WITHIN DESIGNATED DRAINAGE BASINS OF THE UPPER EAST RIVER AND LONG ISLAND SOUND WITHIN QUEENS BRONX AND WESTCHESTER COUNTIES, NEW YORK UPPER EAST RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
| Item No. | Waters Index Number | Name | Description | Map Ref No. | Class | Standards |
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UPPER EAST RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES |
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| 1 | ER portion | East River (10.1-12.3) | From a line drawn across the river between Stony Point in Bronx County and Lawrence Point in Queens County, to the lines drawn across the river from Hunts Point in Bronx County and Sanford Point in Queens County, intersecting at the easterly point of Rikers Island. | R-24sw R-24se | I | I |
| 2 | ER portion | East River (12.3-14.5) | From lines drawn across the river from Hunts Point in Bronx County and Sanford Point in Queens County intersecting at the easterly point of Rikers Island, to Whitestone Bridge connecting Old Ferry Point in Bronx County to Francis Lewis Park in Queens County. | R-24se | I | I |
| 3 | ER portion | East River (14.5-17.0) | From Whitestone Bridge connecting Old Ferry Point in Bronx County to Francis Lewis Park in Queens County to a line drawn across the river between Throgs Neck Point in Bronx County and Willets Point in Queens County. | R-24se | SB | SB |
| 4 | LI-8 | Steinway Creek | R-24sw | SD | SD | |
| 5 | LI-9 | Trib. of East River | Enters stream at Bowery Bay. | R-24sw | SD | SD |
| 6 | LI-12 portion | Flushing Creek | Mouth to Tide Gate Bridge in Flushing Meadow Park. | R-24se | I | I |
| 7 | LI-12 portion | Flushing Creek | From Tide Gate Bridge in Flushing Meadow Park to source. | R-24se S-24ne | B | B |
| 8 | LI-12-P 100a, P 100f | Meadow Lake and Willow Lake | Located in Meadow Park. | S-24ne | B | B |
| 9 | LI-12-1 and trib. | Mill Creek | R-24se | C | C | |
| 10 | LI-12-P 76 | Kissena Lake | S-24ne | B | B | |
| 11 | LI-14, 15 | Tribs. of East River | Enter at Powell Cove. | R-24se | I | I |
| 12 | LI-P 105 | Isolated Lake | Located in Crocheron Park. | R-24se | B | B |
| 13 | LI-19 | Alley Creek | Mouth to P 113. | R-24se R-25sw | I | I |
| 14 | Repealed | |||||
| 15 | LI-P 107 | Oakland Lake | R-24se | B | B | |
| 16 | LI-P 107-1 | Trib. of Oakland Lake | R-24se | C | C | |
| 17 | LI-20 portion | Trib. of Little Neck Bay | From mouth to sewer terminus. Tidal portion. | R-25sw | I | I |
| Fresh water portion. | B | B | ||||
| 18 | ER-3 portion | Bronx River | Mouth to East Tremont Avenue bridge. | R-24se R-24sw | I | I |
| 19 | ER-3 portion | Bronx River | From East Tremont Avenue bridge to Bronx-Westchester county line. | R-24sw R-24se R-24ne | B | B |
| 19.1 | ER-3 portion | Bronx River | From Bronx-Westchester county line to trib. 33. | R-24se Q-24se | C | C |
| 20 | ER-3 portion | Bronx River | From trib. 33 to trib. 38. | Q-24se | C | C(T) |
| 21 | ER-3 portion | Bronx River | From trib. 38 to Kensico Dam. | Q-24se | C | C |
| 22 | ER-3-5, 8, 20 including P 1047a, P 1048a, P 1048b, P 1048c, P 1048d, P 1051a | Tribs. of Bronx River | Laurel Brook (trib. 20). Crotona Park Pond (P 1047a). Woodlawn Lake (P 1051a). | R-24sw R-24ne | B | B |
| 23 | ER-3-P 1052 | Hillview Reservoir | R-24ne | AA | AA | |
| 24 | ER-3-22 | Grassy Sprain Brook | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 25 | ER-3-22-4 | Grassy Sprain Brook | Mouth to dam at Grassy Sprain Brook Reservoir. | R-24ne | C | C |
| 26 | ER-3-22-4-P 1055 | Grassy Sprain Reservoir | R-24ne | A | A | |
| 27 | ER-3-22-4-P 1055-1, 1a | Tribs. of Grassy Sprain Reservoir | Trib. 1 is Grassy Sprain Brook. | R-24ne | C | C |
| 28 | ER-3-22-6, 9 | Tribs. of Sprain Brook | R-24ne Q-24se | C | C | |
| 29 | ER-3-22-9-P 1056a | Subtrib. of Sprain Brook | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 30 | ER-3-P 1057, P 1057a | Tribs. of Bronx River | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 31 | ER-3-24 and trib., 26 including P 1057c, 31 and trib. including P 1057g, P 1057e, P 1057d | Tribs. of Bronx river | Troublesome Brook (trib. 24). | R-24ne Q-24se | C | C |
| 32 | ER-3-24-P 1059a | Crestwood Lake | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 33 | ER-3-33 | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 34 | ER-3-33-P 1057h | Hartsdale Lake | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 35 | ER-3-35 and tribs. including P 1062 | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 36 | ER-3-35-36 and trib. 1 | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 37 | ER-3-36-1-P 1062a | Subtrib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | B | B | |
| 38 | ER-3-36-P 1062c and tribs., P 1062b | White Plains Reservoirs | Q-24se | A | A | |
| 39 | ER-3-P 1057k | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 40 | ER-3-37 | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 41 | ER-3-38 | Trib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C(TS) | |
| 42 | ER-3-38-1 including P 1067m, 3 and trib. | Subtribs. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 43 | ER-3-38-P 1057n | Subtrib. of Bronx River | Q-24se | C | C | |
| 44 | ER-3-P 1063 | Kensico Reservoir | Q-24se Q-25sw | AA | AA(T) | |
| 45 | ER-3-P 1063-2, 3, 4 and tribs. including P 1063a, P 1063b, 5 and tribs., 5a, 7 and tribs., 7a, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 including P 1063d, P 1063e | Tribs. of Kensico Reservoir | Whipporwill Lake (P 1063a). Heaptauga Lake (P 1063b). Bear Gutter Creek (trib. 7). Quarry Lake (P 1063d). | Q-24se Q-25nw Q-25sw | A | A |
| 46 | ER-3-P 1063-5-1-1-P 1063c | Unnamed Pond | Q-25nw | A | A | |
| 47 | ER-3-4 and trib. 1 | Westchester Creek and Pugsley Creek | R-24se | I | I | |
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LONG ISLAND SOUND AND TRIBUTARIES |
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| 48 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound | From a generally north-south line drawn from Throgs Neck Point to Willetts Point to another generally north-south line drawn from Premium Point to Flashing Red Buoy # 2 near Huckleberry Island, thence through Execution Rocks Lighthouse, including Little Neck Bay portion in Queens County, Eastchester Bay in Bronx County and shore waters in Bronx and Westchester Counties within the described portion of the Sound. | R-24se R-24ne R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 49 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound | From a generally north-south line drawn from Premium Point to Flashing Red Buoy #2 near Huckleberry Island, thence through Execution Rocks Lighthouse to the New York-Connecticut state boundary line within Westchester County, excluding waters within the one-mile square of the sewer outfalls of New Rochelle, Mamaroneck and Blind Brook and the below-described Long Island Sound shore waters of Larchmont Harbor, Milton Harbor, the cove areas reaching from Milton Point to the southern tip of Manursing Island and Port Chester Harbor and adjacent Souhd waters. | R-24ne R-25nw | SA | SA |
| 50 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound | Waters of the Sound within the one-square-mile area geometrically formed by the sides of a square one mile in length with the soudh side parallel to the Westchester Nassau county line and which area is located with its center at the terminus of the New Rochelle Water Pollution Control Plant (located about 0.65 mile southeast of Premium Point and 0.9 mile north, east of the northern tip of Huckleberry Island). | R-24ne R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 51 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound | Waters of the Sound within the one square-mile area geometrically formed by the sides of a square one mile in length with the south side parallel to the Westchester Nassau county line and which area is located with its center at the terminus of the Mamaroneck Water Pollution Control Plant (located about 1.5 miles southeast of Orienta Point and 1.2 miles south west of Milton Point). | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 52 | LIS portion | Long Island Sount | Waters of the Sound within the one square-mile area geometrically formed by the sides of a square one mile in length with the south side parallel to the Westchester Nassau county line and which area is located with its center at the terminus of the Blind Brook Water Pollution Control Plant (located about 1.2 miles northeasterly of Parsonage Point and 1.0 mile southwesterly of the southeasterly tip of Manursing Island). | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 53 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound, Larchmont Harbor | Waters not indexed lying north of a line drawn between Umbrella Point at Larchmont and Edgewater Point on Satans Toe. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 54 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound, Mamaroneck Harbor | Waters not indexed lying northerly of a line drawn in a northeasterly direction from the southern tip of the sea wall at Orienta Point near the Orienta Yacht Club at the foot of Rushmore Avenue in Mamaroneck, to a point on the mainland immediately north of Spike Island at the intersection of the shoreline and the extension of the line to the center gable of a large stone and stucco residence at No. 6 Shore Road in the Greenhaven section within the City of Rye. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 55 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound, Milton Harbor | Waters not indexed lying northerly of a line drawn from the north eastern tip of Maries Neck peninsula and extending southeasterly across the harbor to a point at the intersection of the mainland shore of Pine Neck peninsula and the extension of the line to the center section of the Wainwright House located on Stuyvesant Avenue about 0.3 mile northerly of Milton Point. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 56 | LIS portion | Long Island sound, Unnamed cove areas | Shore waters of the Sound not indexed, lying northerly of lines drawn from Milton Point on Pine Neck to Parsonage Point on Pine Neck; thence from Parsoange Point to the south tip of Pine Island on Pine Neck; thence from the northernmost tip of Pine Island to the light buoy 0.2 mile off Rye Beach; thence to the southern most tip of Manursing Island. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 56.1 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound, off Port Chester Harbor | Waters of the Sound not indexed and within Westchester County lying north of a line projected from the southernmost tip of Manursing Island to the south tip of the southernmost Calf Island in Connecticut and lying south of a line drawn from the northernmost tip of North Manursing Island to Navigation Light at tip of breakwater off Byram Point, Connecticut. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 57 | LIS portion | Long Island Sound, Port Chester Harbor | Waters within Westchester county not indexed, lying westerly of a line drawn from the northernmost tip of North Manursing Island to Navigation Light at tip of breakwater off Byram Point, Connecticut. | R-25nw | SB | SB |
| 58 | LIS 1 portion | Weir Creek | R-24se | SB | SB | |
| 59 | LIS 2 portion including tribs. 1, 2 and tribs., 2a, 3, 5 | Hutchinson River or Eastchester Creek | Mouth to East Colonial Avenue bridge. Givan Creek (trib. 1). Mill Creek (trib. 2). | R-24se R-24ne | SB | SB |
| 60 | LIS 2 portion including P1072, P 1075 | Hutchinson River | From East Colonial Avenue to south boundary of City Parkway. Pelham Lake (P 1072). Reservoir No. 1 (P 1075). | R-24ne | B | B |
| 61 | LIS 2 portion including P 1070 | Hutchinson River | From south boundary of City Parkway to P 1075 (Reservoir No. 1). Glenwood Lake (P 1070). | R-24ne | C | C |
| 62 | LIS 2-P 1073a, 10, P 1074 | Tribs. of Hutchinson River | Reservoir No. 2 (P 1073a). Reservoir No. 3 (P 1074). | R-24ne | C | C |
| 63 | LIS 2-P 1075-2 | Trib. of Reservoir No. 1 | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 64 | LIS 4 | Burling Brook | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 65 | LIS P 1080, P 1082 | Hugenot Lake, Paine Lake | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 66 | LIS 6 portion | Premium River | Mouth to Boston Post Road, Tidal portion. (Remaining portion is sewered.) | R-24ne | SC | SC |
| 67 | LIS 6-1, 1a | Tribs. of Premium River | Pinebrook (trib. 1) | R-24ne | C | C |
| 68 | LIS 6-P 1085 | Beechmont Lake | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 69 | LIS 7 portion | East Creek | Mouth to Boston Post Road. (Remaining portion is sewered.) | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| 70 | LIS 8 portion | Mamaroneck River | Mouth to Boston Post Road, Tidal portion. | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| 71 | LIS 8 portion | Mamaroneck River | From Boston Post Road to P 1091a. | R-25nw | C | C |
| 72 | LIS 8 portion | Mamaroneck River | From P 1091a to 0.8 mile above trib. 8. | R-25sw Q-25sw | C | C(T) |
| 73 | LIS 8 | Mamaroneck River | From 0.8 mile above trib. 8 to P 1094 (Silver Lake). | Q-25sw Q-24se | C | C |
| 74 | LIS 8-1 including P 1087b | Sheldrake River | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 75 | LIS 8-1-3 and trib., P 1087a | Tribs. of Sheldrake River | R-24ne | C | C | |
| 76 | LIS 8-1- P 1087 | Sheldrake River | Upper Larchmont Reservoir. | R-24ne | A | A |
| 77 | Repealed | |||||
| 78 | LIS 8-2 | Trib. of Mamaroneck River | R-25nw | D | D | |
| 79 | LIS 8-2-P 1090, P 1086 | Subtribs. of Mamaroneck River | Gedney Pond (P 1090). | R-25nw | C | C |
| 80 | LIS 8-4 | Trib. of Mamaroneck River | R-25nw | C | C | |
| 81 | LIS 8-P 1091a | Mamaroneck Reservoir | R-25nw | A | A | |
| 82 | LIS 8-5a | Trib. of Mamaroneck River | R-25nw R-24ne | C | C | |
| 83 | LIS 8-6 and tribs. | West Branch Mamaroneck River | R-25nw R-24ne Q-24se | C | C | |
| 84 | LIS 8-8 and tribs., 8a, 8b, 9, 10 and tribs., 11 and tribs., 11a, 11b, 12 and tribs., 13 | Tribs. of Mamaroneck River | Upper segment of trib. 12 and tribs., 2a, 3, 4 and 5 drain to P 1093a (Forest Lake). | R-25nw Q-25sw | C | C |
| 85 | LIS 8-12-P 1093a P 1093b, P 1093c | Subtribs. of Mamaroneck River | Spring Lake (P 1093a). Forest Lake (P 1093b). | Q-25sw Q-24se | C | C |
| 86 | LIS 8-P 1094 | Silver Lake | Q-24se Q-25sw | B | B | |
| 87 | LIS 8-P 1094-1 and tribs., 2 | Tribs. of Silver Lake | Q-25sw Q-24se | C | C | |
| 88 | LIS 9 portion | Beaver Swamp Brook | From mouth to trib. 1. Tidal portion. | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| Fresh water portion | C | C | ||||
| 89 | LIS 9 portion | Beaver Swamp Brook | From trib. 1 to Locust Avenue bridge. | R-25nw | C | C |
| 90 | LIS 9 portion | Beaver Swamp Brook | From Locust Avenue bridge to source. | R-25nw Q-24se | C | C |
| 91 | LIS 9-1 and trib. | Trib. of Beaver Swamp Brook | Unsewered segments. | R-25nw | C | C |
| 92 | LIS 9-1-1a-P 1095b | Subtrib. of Beaver Swamp Brook | R-25nw | C | C | |
| 93 | LIS 10 including P 1096 | Otter Creek | Mill Pond (P 1096). | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| 94 | LIS 11 portion | Blind Brook | Mouth to Cross County Parkway bridge. | R-25nw | C | C |
| 95 | LIS 11 portion | Blind Brook | From Cross County Parkway bridge to source. | R-25nw Q-25sw | C | C |
| 96 | LIS 11-7 including P 1098a, 9 including P 1098b, P 1098c, 9a, 11a, 12, 15 | Tribs. of Blind Brook | R-25nw Q-25sw | C | C | |
| 97 | LIS 11-11 portion, including all tribs., and P 1100a | Trib. of Blind Brook | From mouth to trib. 2. | Q-25sw | C | C |
| 98 | LIS 11-11 portion including P 1098d | Trib. of Blind Brook | From trib. 2 to Cottage Street Bridge. | Q-25sw | C | C |
| 99 | LIS 11-11 portion | Trib. of Blind Brook | From Cottage Street Bridge to source. | Q-25sw | C | C |
| 100 | LIS 11-14 | Trib. of Blind Brook | Q-25sw | C | C | |
| 101 | LIS 12, including P 1098e | Playland Lake | Kirby Pond (P 1098e). | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| 102 | LIS 13 portion | Byram River | Mouth to Boston Post Road. | R-25nw | SC | SC |
| 103 | LIS 13 portion | Byram River | From Boston Post Road to New York-Connecticut State line at Port Chester (north of which point the river is located in Connecticut). | R-25nw Q-25sw | C | C |
| 104 | LIS 13 portion | Byram River | From the New York-Connecticut state line (at which point about one mile south of the community of Armonk where the river enters the State of Connecticut) to trib. 11. | Q-25sw | B | B(T) |
| 105 | LIS 13 portion | Byram River | From trib. 11 to Byram Lake Reservoir. | Q-25sw Q-25nw | C | C(T) |
| 106 | LIS 13-11 and tribs. | Wampus River | Q-25sw Q-25nw | C | C | |
| 107 | LIS 13-11-2-P 1103c | Trib. of Wampus River | Q-25nw | C | C | |
| 108 | LIS 13-11- P 1104 | Wampus Lake | Q-25nw | B | B | |
| 109 | LIS 13-11a | Trib. of Byram River | Q-25sw | C | C | |
| 110 | LIS 13-11a-P 1103a, P 1103b | Subtribs. of Byram River | Q-25sw | C | C | |
| 111 | LIS 13-12 and trib., 13, 14, P 1103e | Tribs. of Byram River | Q-25nw | C | C | |
| 112 | LIS 13-12-P 1103d | Subtribs. of Byram River | Q-25nw | B | B | |
| 113 | LIS 13-P 1104 | Byram Lake Reservoir | Q-25nw | AA | AA | |
| 114- | Repealed | |||||
| 163 | ||||||
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