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 4 - DELAWARE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN
Part 815 - DELAWARE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN
Section 815.3 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 6 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 815.3

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 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 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 biological survey of the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds in 1935 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 1935 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) The system as applied to the identification of waters in the Delaware River Drainage Basin may be illustrated as follows:

Waters index number Name of waters Explanation
D Delaware River Primary waters within New York State extending upstream from Tri-State Rock to the confluence of the East Branch and West Branch Delaware River.
D-1 Neversink River The first tributary entering the Delaware River upstream from Tri-State Rock.
D-71 West Branch The 71st (and last) tributary entering the Delaware River Delaware River upstream from Tri-State Rock.
D-71-61 Little Delaware River The 61st tributary entering West Branch Delaware River upstream from its mouth.
D-71-61-7-P 420 Lake Delaware The 420th pond encountered in the waters index system located on the watershed of the watershed of the 7th tributary upstream from the mouth of Little Delaware River.

(c) The abbreviations trib. and tribs. indicating tributary and tributaries, and the terms subtributary and subtributaries shall mean any stream, pond or other body of surface water which flows into any other stream, pond, or other body of surface water; where no tributary, tributaries, subtributary or subtributaries are mentioned, the specifically designated waters shall include only the stream, pond, or other body of water referenced by such waters index number; where a tributary, tributaries, subtributary or subtributaries are mentioned after the waters index number, the specifically designated waters shall include the stream, pond, or other body of water referenced by such waters index number and all tributaries and subtributaries thereof, which are shown on the reference maps, excluding numbered ponds, unless exceptions are expressly stated.

(d) Name as appearing in table I shall mean the name by which the specifically designated waters are known and which name may appear on the reference maps. In cases of specifically designated waters which have no name, the named waters to which the unnamed waters are tributary are identified as far as possible.

(e) Description.

The column headed "Description" contains designations of segments or section of waters under consideration to which a particular assignment of a class and standards shall apply. Also included in this column is any useful information pertinent to the classification or standards.

(f)

Map Ref. No., as appearing in table I, means map reference number and indicates one or more of the following numbered maps reproduced herein completely, or in part, on which maps the specifically designated waters and their index numbers are shown within the topographical limit line of the described drainage basin.

The following maps were reproduced from original maps which may be procured through the Washington Distribution Section, Geological Survey, Silver Spring, Maryland: ......................................................................................................

Map. Ref. No. Quadrangle name Edition Published by
L-18-se Unadilla, N.Y. 1945 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-19sw Franklin, N.Y. 1945 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-19se Treadwell, N.Y. 1945 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-20nw West Davenport, N.Y. 1945 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-20ne Davenport, N.Y. 1945 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-20sw Delhi, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-20se Bloomville, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-21nw Harpersfield, N.Y. 1946 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-21ne Stamford, N.Y. 1946 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-21sw Hobart, N.Y. 1946 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-21se Roxbury, N.Y. 1946 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
L-22sw Prattsville, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-17 Nineveh, N.Y. 1905 U.S. Geological Survey
M-17se Gulf Summit, N.Y. 1952 U.S. Geological Survey
M-18 Deposit, N.Y. 1924 U.S. Geological Survey
M-19 Walton, N.Y. 1925 U.S. Geological Survey
M-20 Andes, N.Y. 1922 U.S. Geological Survey
M-21nw Margaretville, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-21ne Fleischmanns, N.Y. 1943 U.S. Geological Survey
M-21sw Arena, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-21se Seager, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-22nw West Kill, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-22sw Shandaken, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
M-22se Phoenicia, N.Y. 1946 U.S. Geological Survey
N-18 Starrucca, Pa.-N.Y. 1933 U.S. Geological Survey
N-19 Long Eddy, N.Y.-Pa. 1944 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
N-20 Livingston Manor, N.Y. 1944 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
N-21 Neversink, N.Y. 1944 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
N-22nw Peekamoose Mountain, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
N-22ne West Shokan, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
O-19 Damascus, N.Y.-Pa. 1920 U.S. Geological Survey
O-20 White Lake, N.Y.-Pa. 1957 U.S. Geological Survey
O-21 Monticello, N.Y. 1944 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
O-22nw Ellenville, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
O-22sw Wurtsboro, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
P-20 Milford, Pa.-N.Y.-N.J. 1944 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
P-21nw Port Jervis North, N.Y.-Pa. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
P-21ne Otisville, N.Y. 1943 Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
P-21sw Port Jervis South, N.Y.-N.J.-Pa. 1953 U.S. Geological Survey
P-21se Unionville, N.Y.-N.J. 1953 U.S. Geological Survey

(g) Class, as appearing in table I and denoted by the letters AA, A, B, C or D opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean class AA, A, B, C or D, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701 of this Title.

(h) Standards, as appearing in table I and denoted by the letters AA, A, B, C or D opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean the quality standards established for clasa AA, A, B, C or D, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701 of this Title. The symbol (T) appearing 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 oxyen specification for trout spawning waters shall apply thereto.

(i) The term trout as used in this Part means any fish in the following genera: Coregonus, Oncorhyncus, Prosopium, Salmo, Salvelinus and Thymallus.

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