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Ausable River, New York
14.4 mapped river miles, draining 514 square miles, in the Ausable River basin watershed.
Open in BirdTrout50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
Thermal classification
There is no USGS gauge within 40 miles of this stream in the record this site holds, so there is no live temperature on this page and no measured July mean. Everything below the bar is NYSDEC's own classification of the water.
NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. It is the same classification the map paints from, and it is a class, not a temperature: no July mean appears on this page because none was measured on this water.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | NYSDEC type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 5.7–1.7 | 4.0 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 4.0 of the 22 miles NHD carries for this stream — 18% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class C — fishing. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.
NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →
Public land on the river
4 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 42,246 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Ausable Marsh Wma | state conservation department | 730 |
| Ausable River — Public Fishing Rights Easement | NYSDEC | 67 |
| Taylor Pond Wild Forest | state conservation department | 41,424 |
| Town Of Chesterfield Land | city land | 25 |
Tributaries and watershed
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Dry Mill Brook 8.0 mi · RM 2.4
- Mud Brook 8.0 mi · RM 5.9
- Gay Brook 5.1 mi · RM 14.4
- Southwick Brook 3.4 mi · RM 3.5
Ausable River sits in HUC 8 04300104, the Ausable River basin, and drains 514 square miles, Strahler order 6 at the mouth. 30 NHD reaches carry the name for 21.8 miles in total — more than the 14.4 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.