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 7 - Lake Champlain Drainage Basin
Part 830 - Lake Champlain Drainage Basin
Section 830.3 - Definitions

Universal Citation: 6 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs § 830.3

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024

The terms, words, or phrases used in this Part shall have the meanings described below:

(a) "Item no." In table I, the waters within the Lake Champlain drainage basin are listed for purposes of classification. For ease of reference, each listing in the table has been assigned an "item number."

(b) "Waters index number" as appearing in table I shall mean that number or abbreviation which has been assigned to any specifically designated waters or portions 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 Department in its biological survey series of reports on the watersheds of the State. The primary waters of a drainage basin, such as rivers or large lakes, are usually referred to by name or an abbreviation. Tributaries of primary waters are consecutively numbered progressing upstream from the mouth. Ponds and lakes are numbered consecutively as they are encountered, such numbers being preceded by the letter P. Tributaries of lakes and ponds are numbered consecutively as they enter, progressing clockwise around the lake or pond from its outlet or mouth. When isolated lakes and ponds are referenced by a waters index number, it is merely for convenience of their identification and location within a drainage 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 Department in its biological survey of the Lake Champlain watershed 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 Department at the time of its 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 Lake Champlain drainage basin may be illustrated as follows:

"Waters index number"	"Name of waters"	"Explanation"
C	Lake Champlain	Lake Champlain, a primary waterway.
C-15	Saranac River	The fifteenth tributary entering Lake Champlain numbering from north to south beginning at the Canadian Border at the north and proceeding to the Vermont Border at the south.
C-15-22	North Branch Saranac River	The twenty-second tributary entering the Saranac River upstream from its mouth.
C-15-22-24	Tributary of North Branch Saranac River	The twenty-fourth tributary entering the North Branch Saranac River upstream from its mouth.
C-15-22-24-P 48	Loon Lake	The forty-eighth pond, lake, or reservoir encountered in the biological survey of the Lake Champlain watershed and specifically located in the drainage basin of C-15-22-24.

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

(d) "Name" as appearing in table I shall mean the name, if any, by which the specifically designated waters are generally known and which 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 indicated as far as possible.

(e) "Description" as appearing in table I shall mean a brief indication as to the location of the specifically designated waters. Entries may include designations of segments or sections of waters to which a particular assignment of a class and standards shall apply. Entries may also include any useful information pertinent to the classification and standards. Geographic coordinates, when specified, are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system zone 18 north (UTM 18N), North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), in meters. All coordinates are expressed as east (E), north (N), and rounded to the nearest ten meters.

(f) "Map ref. no." The map reference numbers appearing in table I under this heading designate the following maps which have been reproduced completely or in part in section 830.10 of this Part.

"Map ref. no."	"Name of quadrangle"	"Published by"	"Edition"
A-24	Churubusco	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1943
A-25	Mooers	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1943
A-26	Rouses Point	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1943
B-23	Loon Lake	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1908
B-24	Lyon Mountain	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1913
B-25	Dannemora	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1913
B-26	Plattsburgh	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1943
C-22	St. Regis	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1905
C-23	Saranac	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1902
C-24	Lake Placid	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1898
C-25	Ausable	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1903
C-26	Willsboro	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1943
D-22	Long Lake	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1904
D-23	Santanoni	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1904
D-24	Mt. Marcy	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1902
D-25	Elizabethtown	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1901
D-26	Port Henry	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1947
E-25	Paradox Lake	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1897
E-26	Ticonderoga	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1902
F-25	Bolton	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1900
F-26	Whitehall	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1902
G-24	Luzerne	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1903
G-25	Glens Falls	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1897
G-26	Fort Ann	U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers	1904

(g) "Class" as appearing in table I and denoted by the letters AA-S, AA, A, B, C, or D opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean class AA-S, 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-S, AA, A, B, C, or D opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean the standards of quality and purity established for class AA-S, AA, A, B, C, or D, as the case may be, as set forth in Parts 700-706 of this Title. The symbol (T) appearing after any standard designation means that the designated waters are trout waters and that any water quality standard, guidance value, or thermal criterion that specifically refers to trout or trout waters applies. The symbol (TS) appearing after any standard designation means that the designated waters are trout spawning waters and that any water quality standard, guidance value, or thermal criterion that specifically refers to trout, trout spawning, trout waters, or trout spawning waters applies.

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

(j) The term "forest preserve" as used in this Part shall have the same meaning as the definition contained in subdivision 6 of Section 9-0101 of the Environmental Conservation Law.

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