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East Branch Delaware River Watershed, New York

1,731 miles of mapped stream across 840 square miles of drainage in Delaware, Sullivan, Ulster, Greene counties, in 100 named streams. New York designates 517 of those miles as trout water, on 95 streams. The 10 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 61.9 and 73.1°F in July.

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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 02040102 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,731 mi
of mapped stream
7,389 NHD reaches
840 sq mi
drainage area
537,855 acres
61.9–73.1°F
July water temperature at the gauges
10 mainstem gauges, mean 67.2°F
108,077 ac
public land
20.1% of the basin · 23 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 60% of this basin's stream miles (1033.4 of 1,731); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1033.4 of the 1033.4 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 60% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 100 of them, longest first. 10 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
East Branch Delaware River 80.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Beaver Kill 43.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Willowemoc Creek 29.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Brook 21.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 14.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tremper Kill 14.2 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Platte Kill 13.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Mill Brook 12.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Little Beaver Kill 12.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Batavia Kill 11.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Read Creek 10.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Vly Creek 10.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Cadosia Creek 9.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bush Kill 8.2 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Red Kill 7.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Baxter Brook 7.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Campbell Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mongaup Creek 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Russell Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fir Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spring Brook 6.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Sprague Brook 5.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Bryants Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fish Creek 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Emory Brook 5.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Shin Creek 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Creek 5.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Gee Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wilson Hollow Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bryden Hill Brook 5.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Barkaboom Stream 4.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
East Trout Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Berry Brook 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Holliday Brook 4.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Cattail Brook 4.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Lower Beech Hill Brook 4.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Horse Brook 4.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Stewart Brook 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pleasant Valley Brook 4.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
East Brook 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Huckleberry Brook 4.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
West Trout Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Abe Wood Brook 3.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Horton Brook 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lakin Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Red Kill 3.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
West Settlement Creek 3.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Murphy Hill Brook 3.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
City Brook 3.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cook Brook 3.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Butternut Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Upper Beech Hill Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beecher Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Elk Creek 3.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Liddle Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Carcass Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mary Smith Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Fuller Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spooner Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Peas Eddy Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shandelee Brook 2.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Hazel Brook 2.7 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Gulf of Mexico Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bascom Brook 2.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Scudder Brook 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Todd Brook 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fall Brook 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sucker Brook 2.3 untyped — —
Rich Creek 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Twadell Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Deerlick Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Morrison Brook 2.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hunter Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Snake Creek 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Downs Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clauson Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bear Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ragged Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pine Mountain Branch 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Coon Hill Brook 1.7 untyped — —
Jersey Brook 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Spring Brook 1.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Ash Clove Brook 1.5 untyped — —
Shandaken Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Doe Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mine Brook 1.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Roaring Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Whirling Eddy Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mellis Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tub Mill Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crystal Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Flynn Brook 1.3 untyped — —
Gulf Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bolton Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Knowles Brook 1.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Voorhees Brook 1.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Al Fisher Brook 1.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Flatiron Brook 0.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ash Run 0.9 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

108,077 acres in 23 units, which is 20.1% of the 537,855 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 98,454 91% 17
City and township land 9,623 9% 6

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.