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Bronx River, New York
10.8 mapped river miles, draining 29 square miles, in the Bronx basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.
50°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.
The nearest live reading
This gauge stands in the Bronx River. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is NYSDEC's — but the reading is this water.
Thermal classification
NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | NYSDEC type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 10.8–6.0 | 4.8 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 4.8 of the 35 miles NHD carries for this stream — 14% 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.
Questions about this river
- Bronx River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Bronx River — access, parking and public land
- Bronx River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing, and Class I — contact recreation and fishing, saline. 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
5 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 6,121 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Parkway Oval | county land | 16 |
| County Of Westchester Land | county land | 5,742 |
| Town Of Greenburgh Land | city land | 258 |
| Westchester County Land | county land | 99 |
| Town Of Eastchester Land | city land | 6 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
3 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Grassy Sprain Brook 5.1 mi · RM 0.0
- Troublesome Brook 2.6 mi · RM 1.6
- Fulton Brook 0.9 mi · RM 8.3
Bronx River sits in HUC 8 02030102, the Bronx basin, and drains 29 square miles, Strahler order 5 at the mouth. 54 NHD reaches carry the name for 35.0 miles in total — more than the 10.8 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.