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Chateaugay-English Watershed, New York

1,485 miles of mapped stream across 1,153 square miles of drainage in Franklin, Clinton counties, in 85 named streams. New York designates 176 of those miles as trout water, on 25 streams.

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Public land — where the bank is open to walk and fish
USGS gauge — live water temperature
Water temperature — the colour of every stream in the basin

50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands the app paints. On this map the colour is NYSDEC's own classification of the stream, not a measurement, except at the gauge dots, which read live. Grey is water NYSDEC has not typed.

The watershed in numbers

HUC8 04300201 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,485 mi
of mapped stream
3,933 NHD reaches
1,153 sq mi
drainage area
738,007 acres
8,070 ac
public land
1.1% of the basin · 2 units

Cold, cool and warm water

NYSDEC classifies every surface water in New York under 6 NYCRR Parts 800-941, and the class is a best usage — what the water is protected for — rather than a temperature. The temperature statement is the (T) or (TS) suffix beside it: the water DEC designates for trout, or for trout spawning, which 6 NYCRR 704.2(b) protects with a 70 °F ceiling on any discharge. That suffix is what this page counts and what the map paints by; the class letter is printed beside it and is not a thermal grade. It covers 19% of this basin's stream miles (289.2 of 1,485); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

289.2 of the 289.2 typed miles in this basin — 100% — are cold or cold-transitional water. Every typed reach carries the same class, which is as likely to be the coverage as the water: NYSDEC has typed 19% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 85 of them, longest first. 3 have a page of their own and are linked; the rest are in the app. The class column is NYSDEC's designation of that stream. "Now" is the live USGS reading where a gauge stands in that stream.

Stream Miles Class Now Designation
Trout River 24.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Trout River 24.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
English River 20.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Chateaugay River 16.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Collins Brook 14.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Marble River 12.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Brook 11.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hinchinbrook Brook 11.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Allen Brook 11.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Briggs Creek 11.1 untyped — —
Middle Kiln Brook 10.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rivière aux Outardes 10.6 untyped — —
Ruisseau Oak 10.2 untyped — —
Rivière Hinchinbrooke 9.2 untyped — —
Crystal Creek 9.0 untyped — —
Rocky Brook 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ruisseau Mitchel 8.5 untyped — —
Ruisseau Beaver 8.3 untyped — —
Rivière Châteauguay 7.9 untyped — —
Ruisseau Norton 7.4 untyped — —
Ouleout Creek 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Separator Brook 6.7 untyped — —
East Branch Trout River 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Standish Brook 6.5 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
West Branch Trout River 6.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Oak Creek 6.3 untyped — —
Ruisseau Noir 6.0 untyped — —
Bradley Brook 5.5 untyped — —
West Branch English River 5.1 untyped — —
Mountain Pond Stream 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Brook 4.9 untyped — —
Ruisseau Norton Branche Est 4.8 untyped — —
Ruisseau McIntosh 4.6 untyped — —
Flynn Brook 4.3 untyped — —
Beaver Pond Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ruisseau School 3.8 untyped — —
Boardman Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Thurber Brook 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Middle Branch Trout River 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Décharge Wilson-McArthur 3.5 untyped — —
Décharge de la Compagnie 3.2 untyped — —
Ruisseau Springs 3.0 untyped — —
Ruisseau Mooer 3.0 untyped — —
Brandy Brook 2.9 untyped — —
Bailey Brook 2.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Ruisseau Collins 2.9 untyped — —
Wentworth Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Weed Brook 2.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Ruisseau Dauphinais 2.4 untyped — —
Ruisseau Burns 2.4 untyped — —
Ruisseau Brinkworth 2.1 untyped — —
Foster Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ruisseau Murray 1.8 untyped — —
Kellas Creek 1.8 untyped — —
Cours d'eau Davis 1.8 untyped — —
Ruisseau Finlayson 1.7 untyped — —
Cours d'eau Vincent 1.6 untyped — —
Ruisseau Hébert 1.6 untyped — —
Ruisseau Boileau 1.5 untyped — —
Cours d'eau Stairs 1.5 untyped — —
Ruisseau Pringle 1.4 untyped — —
Taylor Brook 1.4 untyped — —
Ruisseau Robson 1.4 untyped — —
Rivière aux Outardes Est 1.4 untyped — —
Ruisseau Dawson-Brimg 1.3 untyped — —
Ruisseau Deneault 1.3 untyped — —
Ruisseau Pond 1.2 untyped — —
Décharge Hamilton 1.2 untyped — —
Nay Brook 1.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rivière Trout 1.0 untyped — —
Ruisseau Allen 1.0 untyped — —
Cours d'eau Florian-Dauphinais 1.0 untyped — —
Branche Carrs-Rutherford 0.9 untyped — —
Ruisseau du Clergé 0.9 untyped — —
Ruisseau Bélanger 0.7 untyped — —
Cours d'eau Cleuziou 0.6 untyped — —
Décharge Flynn 0.6 untyped — —
Ruisseau Spring 0.5 untyped — —
Décharge Keogh 0.5 untyped — —
Ruisseau Giroux 0.5 untyped — —
Ruisseau Levi 0.5 untyped — —
Ruisseau Vaillancourt 0.4 untyped — —
Décharge Leblanc 0.3 untyped — —
Ruisseau du Gouffre 0.2 untyped — —
Ruisseau Prévost 0.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

8,070 acres in 2 units, which is 1.1% of the 738,007 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
State conservation department 8,070 100% 2

The biggest named blocks of it, each with its own page — the streams on that ground, what is open to hunt on it, and where the access sites are.

Neighbouring watersheds

The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.