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Lake Champlain Watershed, New York

3,815 miles of mapped stream across 2,802 square miles of drainage in Clinton, Essex, Warren, Washington counties, in 133 named streams. New York designates 659 of those miles as trout water, on 93 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 04300108 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

3,815 mi
of mapped stream
10,187 NHD reaches
2,802 sq mi
drainage area
1,793,321 acres
163,871 ac
public land
9.1% of the basin · 32 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 35% of this basin's stream miles (1353.8 of 3,815); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1353.8 of the 1353.8 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 35% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 133 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
Great Chazy River 50.0 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Boquet River 46.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
La Chute 46.0 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special, Class C — fishing
Little Ausable River 32.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Mill Brook 27.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Great Chazy River 26.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Salmon River 25.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Branch Boquet River 23.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brandy Brook 23.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Putnam Creek 21.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Chazy River 21.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Corbeau Creek 20.6 untyped — —
Riley Brook 20.5 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Spruce Mill Brook 17.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Cold Brook 15.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 15.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Graves Brook 13.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rea Brook 12.9 untyped — —
Black River 12.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Stillwater Brook 12.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Phelps Brook 10.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bullis Brook 10.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tracy Brook 10.4 untyped — —
Spaulding Brook 10.3 untyped — —
Arnold Brook 10.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hale Brook 10.0 untyped — —
Kennon Brook 9.6 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Farrell Brook 9.5 untyped — —
King Brook 9.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
The Branch 9.3 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Northwest Bay Brook 8.9 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Park Brook 8.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Brook 8.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
McKenzie Brook 8.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
North Fork Boquet River 8.1 untyped — —
Fivemile Creek 8.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mount Hope Brook 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Furnace Brook 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dead Creek 7.9 untyped — —
Stacy Brook 7.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Derby Brook 7.3 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Slide Brook 7.2 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Burpee Brook 7.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Charter Brook 6.9 untyped — —
Hoisington Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
English Brook 6.6 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Hague Brook 6.6 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Wards Creek 6.6 untyped — —
Witherspoon Brook 6.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Roaring Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Grove Brook 6.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sperry Brook 6.3 untyped — —
Sucker Brook 6.2 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Crooked Brook 6.1 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Spring Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Greenland Brook 5.8 untyped — —
Bartlett Brook 5.8 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
South Fork Boquet River 5.8 untyped — —
Kimball Brook 5.7 untyped — —
Chilson Brook 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ausable River 5.2 untyped — —
Barton Brook 5.1 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Fly Brook 4.9 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Caldwell Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spectacle Brook 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Braisted Brook 4.8 untyped — —
Doyle Brook 4.6 untyped — —
Church Brook 4.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Robinson Brook 4.5 untyped — —
Holmes Creek 4.5 untyped — —
Huddle Brook 4.4 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Indian Brook 4.4 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Shedden Brook 4.4 untyped — —
Round Pond Brook 4.3 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Haymeadow Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jackson Brook 4.2 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Deep Inlet Brook 4.2 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Mullen Brook 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ruisseau Glass 4.1 untyped — —
Pike Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Brook 4.0 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Little Trout Brook 4.0 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Hospital Creek 3.9 untyped — —
Big Brook 3.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Thorp Brook 3.8 untyped — —
Falls Brook 3.8 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Silver Stream 3.8 untyped — —
Cubtown Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Durgan Brook 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kelley Brook 3.5 untyped — —
Bradford Brook 3.3 untyped — —
Chapman Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sample Brook 3.2 untyped — —
Guay Creek 3.2 untyped — —
Pine Lake Brook 3.1 untyped — —
Finkle Brook 3.1 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Boyington Brook 3.0 untyped — —
Hammond Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Winooski River 2.9 untyped — —
Horton Brook 2.8 untyped — —
Big Hollow Branch 2.8 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Shelving Rock Brook 2.8 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Cold Springs Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wolf Pond Brook 2.7 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Grant Brook 2.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jabe Pond Brook 2.6 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Stevens Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pringle Brook 2.6 untyped — —
Stony Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shanty Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Watson Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Butternut Brook 2.4 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
South Inlet 2.4 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Half Mile Brook 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Edmunds Brook 2.3 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Kenney Brook 2.3 untyped — —
Brandywine Brook 2.3 untyped — —
Coughlin Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Deer Pond Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Meadow Brook 1.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Smith Brook 1.7 Cold — Class AA-S — drinking water source, special
Kerner Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Pond Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Saint Germaine Brook 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mountain Brook 1.6 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source
Mud Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Gravestone Brook 1.3 untyped — —
Marble River 1.0 untyped — —
Otter Creek 0.8 untyped — —
Beaver Creek 0.8 untyped — —
Saranac River 0.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Richelieu River 0.8 untyped — —
South Bay Creek 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

163,871 acres in 32 units, which is 9.1% of the 1,793,321 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 155,959 95% 25
Another state agency 3,880 2% 2
City and township land 2,972 2% 4
County land 1,060 1% 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.

Neighbouring watersheds

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