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Byram River, New York
14.7 mapped river miles, draining 12 square miles, in the Saugatuck basin watershed. No gauge stands in it; the nearest is 18.1 miles away, and what this page knows about its temperature is 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
The nearest gauge is 18.1 miles away, at Bronx River At Ny Botanical Garden At Bronx Ny — not a reading of this water, but of what the region is doing today.
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 13.3–9.4 | 3.8 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 3.8 of the 14.7 miles NHD carries for this stream — 26% 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
- Byram River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the Byram River — access, parking and public land
- Byram River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing, and Class SC — 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, 748 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Village-Of-Mount-Kisco Land | city land | 154 |
| Town Of North Castle Land | city land | 514 |
| Lombardi Park | local holder not recorded | 19 |
| Village Of Port Chester Land | city land | 50 |
| Columbus Park | city land | 11 |
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
2 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Converse Pond Brook 7.6 mi · RM 4.9
- Wampus River 3.5 mi · RM 10.0
Byram River sits in HUC 8 01100006, the Saugatuck basin, and drains 12 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 59 NHD reaches carry the name for 14.7 miles in total.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.