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Housatonic River Watershed, New York
1,044 miles of mapped stream across 1,952 square miles of drainage in Dutchess, Columbia counties, in 94 named streams. New York designates 127 of those miles as trout water, on 22 streams.
Open in BirdTrout50°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 01100005 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.
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 22% of this basin's stream miles (234.7 of 1,044); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.
- Cold 234.7 mi (100%)
234.7 of the 234.7 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 22% of it.
Every named stream in the basin
All 94 of them, longest first. 1 has a page of its own and is 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webatuck Creek | 30.4 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Housatonic River | 25.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Green River | 20.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Swamp River | 20.5 | Cold | — | Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing |
| Tenmile River | 16.9 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Wassaic Creek | 13.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Williams River | 11.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Still River | 10.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Macedonia Brook | 8.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Furnace Brook | 8.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill Brook | 8.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Flat Brook | 7.7 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Burton Brook | 7.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Deuel Hollow Brook | 6.9 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Alford Brook | 6.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Morrissey Brook | 6.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Stony Brook | 5.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Baldwin Brook | 5.7 | Cold | — | Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing |
| Sawmill Brook | 5.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Bull Mountain Brook | 5.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Guinea Brook | 5.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Great Brook | 4.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Indian Lake Creek | 4.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Butts Hollow Brook | 4.8 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cone Brook | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Bog Hollow Brook | 4.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Stone Church Brook | 4.6 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Cranse Creek | 4.5 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Kent Falls Brook | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Ball Pond Brook | 4.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Lenox Mountain Brook | 4.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Wimisink Brook | 4.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Long Pond Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Pond Mountain Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Coopertown Brook | 4.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Womenshenuk Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Padanaram Brook | 4.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Beaver Brook | 4.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Birdseye Brook | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Valley Brook | 3.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Seekonk Brook | 3.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Miry Brook | 3.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Gunn Brook | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Cobble Brook | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Short Woods Brook | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Sympaug Brook | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Kohanza Brook | 3.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Wells Brook | 3.3 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Fairfield Brook | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Beardsley Pond Brook | 3.0 | untyped | — | — |
| Mill River | 3.0 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Bonney Brook | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Hiller Brook | 2.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Bullymuck Brook | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Parks Pond Brook | 2.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Sleepy Hollow Brook | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Glen Brook | 2.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Thayer Brook | 2.5 | untyped | — | — |
| Mauwee Brook | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Tollgate Brook | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Cross Brook | 2.4 | untyped | — | — |
| East Lake Brook | 2.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Scribner Brook | 2.2 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Millard Brook | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Yuza Mini Brook | 2.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Stewart Hollow Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| North Kent Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Kelsey Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Beeslick Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Doctors Brook | 1.9 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Squash Hollow Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Sawmill River | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Kissen Brook | 1.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Tom Ball Brook | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Beebe Brook | 1.8 | untyped | — | — |
| Tanner Brook | 1.7 | untyped | — | — |
| Choggam Brook | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Deep Brook | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Rocky River | 1.6 | untyped | — | — |
| Bog Meadow Brook | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Bates Brook | 1.4 | untyped | — | — |
| Jack Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Greenwood Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Worden Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Little Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Lees Pond Brook | 1.3 | untyped | — | — |
| Bloody Brook | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| North Flanders Brook | 1.2 | untyped | — | — |
| Westover Brook | 1.1 | Cold | — | Class C — fishing |
| Ore Hill Brook | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mudge Pond Brook | 1.1 | untyped | — | — |
| Mann Brook | 0.9 | untyped | — | — |
| Spruce Brook | 0.2 | untyped | — | — |
| West Aspetuck River | 0.2 | untyped | — | — |
Public land in the watershed
7,500 acres in 6 units, which is 0.6% of the 1,248,986 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 | 3,609 | 48% | 3 |
| State park agency | 2,235 | 30% | 1 |
| National Park Service | 1,286 | 17% | 1 |
| City and township land | 370 | 5% | 1 |
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.
- Taconic State Park 6,198.6 ac
- Harvey Mountain State Forest 2,038.9 ac
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail 8,088.2 ac
- West Mountain State Forest 983.9 ac
- Beebe Hill Multiple Use Area 1,551.3 ac
- Town Of Pawling Land 375.1 ac
Neighbouring watersheds
The subbasins that share a boundary with this one and carry coldwater streams.