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Hudson-Wappinger Watershed, New York

1,969 miles of mapped stream across 944 square miles of drainage in Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Putnam counties, in 80 named streams. New York designates 257 of those miles as trout water, on 44 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 02020008 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,969 mi
of mapped stream
6,972 NHD reaches
944 sq mi
drainage area
604,085 acres
47,909 ac
public land
7.9% of the basin · 22 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 22% of this basin's stream miles (433.6 of 1,969); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

433.6 of the 433.6 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 80 of them, longest first. 8 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
Wappinger Creek 47.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Hudson River 47.0 untyped — —
Fishkill Creek 38.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Sprout Creek 25.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Otter Kill 21.8 untyped — —
Black Creek 20.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Quassaic Creek 19.8 untyped — —
Fall Kill 19.5 untyped — —
Little Wappinger Creek 17.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Crum Elbow Creek 16.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Moodna Creek 16.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Landsman Kill 13.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Clove Creek 12.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Casper Creek 12.0 untyped — —
Black Meadow Creek 11.7 untyped — —
Popolopen Creek 11.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Cromline Creek 11.4 untyped — —
Jackson Creek 11.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Woodbury Creek 10.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gidneytown Creek 9.9 untyped — —
East Branch Wappinger Creek 9.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Whaley Lake Stream 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Whortlekill Creek 8.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Satterly Creek 8.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lattintown Creek 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Seely Brook 7.6 untyped — —
Cold Spring Creek 7.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Wiccopee Creek 7.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rhinebeck Kill 7.2 untyped — —
Willow Brook 6.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Maritje Kill 6.0 untyped — —
Fallsburg Creek 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pancake Hollow Brook 5.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Twaalfskill Creek 5.7 untyped — —
Philips Brook 5.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Indian Kill 5.3 untyped — —
Hunns Lake Creek 5.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Great Spring Creek 5.3 untyped — —
Perry Creek 5.0 untyped — —
Highland Brook 5.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Foundry Brook 4.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Mineral Spring Brook 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Indian Brook 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mill Brook 4.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Mountain Brook 4.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Silver Stream 4.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Clove Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shaw Brook 3.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Trout Creek 3.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bushfield Creek 3.4 untyped — —
Beechy Bottom Brook 3.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Youngs Brook 3.3 untyped — —
Long Pond Brook 3.3 untyped — —
Frog Hollow Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gordons Brook 3.0 untyped — —
Gardner Hollow Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaverdam Brook 2.5 untyped — —
Baby Brook 2.5 untyped — —
Arden Brook 2.5 untyped — —
North Staatsburg Creek 2.4 untyped — —
Sweezy Creek 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Breakneck Brook 2.4 untyped — —
Cranberry Brook 2.4 untyped — —
Wades Brook 2.1 untyped — —
Bard Rock Creek 2.0 untyped — —
Queensboro Brook 1.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Sand Spring Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crows Nest Brook 1.7 untyped — —
Flat Rock Brook 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Seeley Creek 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Brook 1.5 untyped — —
Copper Mine Brook 1.5 untyped — —
Squirrel Hollow Brook 1.4 untyped — —
Hemlock Brook 1.0 untyped — —
Fonteyn Kill 0.9 untyped — —
Bockey Swamp Brook 0.9 untyped — —
Stony Lonesome Brook 0.8 untyped — —
Lewis Brook 0.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Rondout Creek 0.4 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

47,909 acres in 22 units, which is 7.9% of the 604,085 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 park agency 37,515 78% 8
State conservation department 5,183 11% 4
National Park Service 3,670 8% 1
County land 1,168 2% 3
City and township land 246 1% 4
Another state agency 127 0% 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.