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 5 - GENESEE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN SERIES
Part 821 - UPPER GENESEE RIVER DRAINAGE BASIN
Section 821.3 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 6 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs § 821.3

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 was adapted from that used by the New York State Conservation Department in its stocking lists. 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 or 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 "Revised Stocking List of the Genesee River System - March 1952" 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 older maps employed by the Conservation Department at the time of the list's publication 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 Upper Genesee River drainage basin may be illustrated as follows:

*Waters index number*	*Name*	*Explanation*
Ont.	Lake Ontario	Primary waters.
Ont. 117	Genesee River	A primary drainage basin of the State numbering clockwise from the St. Lawrence River.
Ont. 117-27	Honeoye Creek	The 27th tributary of the Genesee River numbering from the mouth upstream.
Ont. 117-27-34	Hemlock Outlet	The 34th tributary of Honeoye Creek numbering from the mouth upstream.
Ont. 117-27-34 -P 44	Hemlock Lake	The 44th pond encountered in the Genesee River drainage basin.
Ont. 117-27-34 -P 44-7	Springwater Creek	The 7th tributary of Hemlock Lake numbering clockwise from the mouth.

(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 water shall include only the stream, pond, or other body of water referenced by such waters index number; where 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 sections of waters under consideration to which a particular assignment of a class or 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.

(1) The following maps were produced from original maps which may be procured through the Washington Distribution Section, Geological Survey, Silver Spring, Maryland.

*Map Ref. No.*	*Quadrangle name*	*Published by*	*Edition*
H-7ne	Holley	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
H-7sw	Batavia North	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
H-7se	Byron	U.S. Geological Survey	1952
H-8nw	Brockport	U.S. Geological Survey	1952
H-8ne	Spencerport	U.S. Geological Survey	1952
H-8sw	Churchville	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
H-8se	Clifton	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
H-9nw	Rochester West	U.S. Geological Survey	1952
H-9sw	Genesee Junction	U.S. Geological Survey	1952
H-9se	Mendon Ponds	U.S. Geological Survey	1935
J-7nw	Batavia South	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
J-7ne	Stafford	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
J-7sw	Dale	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-7se	Wyoming	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-8nw	Le Roy	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
J-8ne	Caledonia	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
J-8sw	Leicester	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-8se	Geneseo	U.S. Geological Survey	1950
J-9nw	Rush	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-9ne	Honeoye Falls	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-9sw	Livonia	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-9se	Honeoye	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-10nw	Victor	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
J-10sw	Bristol Center	U.S. Geological Survey	1951
K-6	Arcade	U.S. Geological Survey	1925
K-7nw	Warsaw	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-7ne	Castile	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-7sw	Pike	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-7se	Portageville	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-8nw	Mount Morris	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-8ne	Sonyea	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-8sw	Nunda	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-8se	Ossian	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1944
K-9nw	Conesus	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1942
K-9ne	Springwater	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1942
K-9sw	Dansville	Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army	1942
K-9se	Wayland	U.S. Geological Survey	1942
K-10nw	Bristol Springs	U.S. Geological Survey	1943
L-6	Franklinville	U.S. Geological Survey	1924
L-7	Angelica	U.S. Geological Survey	1906
L-8	Canaseraga	U.S. Geological Survey	1916
L-9	Hornell	U.S. Geological Survey	1918
M-6	Olean	U.S. Geological Survey	1938
M-7	Belmont	U.S. Geological Survey	1925
M-8	Wellsville	U.S. Geological Survey	1924
M-9	Greenwood	U.S. Geological Survey	1926

(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, supra.

(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 standards of quality and purity established for class AA, A, B, C or D, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701, supra. The symbol (T) appearing after any standard 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 standard designation shall mean that the designated waters are suitable for trout spawning and that the dissolved oxygen specifications for trout spawning waters shall apply hereto.

Disclaimer: These regulations may not be the most recent version. New York may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.