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Boquet River, New York
23 mapped river miles, draining 21 square miles, in the Lake Champlain 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 23.1–0.0 | 46.8 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 46.8 of the 47 miles NHD carries for this stream — 100% 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 A — drinking water source and Class C — fishing. More than one class appears because the classification changes along the river; the thermal bar above shows where. 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
12 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 8,126 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Boquet River — Public Fishing Rights Easement | NYSDEC | 928 |
| Eddy Foundation Land | land trust or conservancy | 145 |
| Split Rock Wildway - Floodplain Forest | land trust or conservancy | 90 |
| Boquet River Nature Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 120 |
| Town Of Willsboro Land | city land | 81 |
| New York State Lands | another state agency | 5,865 |
| Boquet River - Noblewood Park (Conservation Easement) | city land | 71 |
| Boquet River - Noblewood Park (Conservation Easement) | local holder not recorded | 71 |
| Coon Mountain Preserve | land trust or conservancy | 308 |
| Wilsboro Dam Fish Dam | state conservation department | 1 |
Tributaries and watershed
4 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- North Branch Boquet River 23.2 mi · RM 5.2
- Beaver Brook 8.5 mi · RM 12.0
- Crooked Brook 6.1 mi · RM 17.4
- Brandywine Brook 2.3 mi · RM 0.0
Boquet River sits in HUC 8 04300108, the Lake Champlain basin, and drains 21 square miles, Strahler order 4 at the mouth. 70 NHD reaches carry the name for 47.0 miles in total — more than the 23.1 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.