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Mettawee River Watershed, New York

1,012 miles of mapped stream across 687 square miles of drainage in Washington, Warren counties, in 25 named streams. New York designates 80 of those miles as trout water, on 9 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 04300101 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,012 mi
of mapped stream
2,860 NHD reaches
687 sq mi
drainage area
439,961 acres
5,043 ac
public land
1.1% of the basin · 4 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 (221.8 of 1,012); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

221.8 of the 221.8 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 22% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 25 of them, longest first. 2 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
Mettawee River 31.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Halfway Brook 31.1 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source
Poultney River 21.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mud Brook 17.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bishop Brook 15.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class AA — drinking water source
Indian River 14.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Big Creek 14.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Coggman Creek 11.4 untyped — —
Wells Brook 11.0 untyped — —
Wood Creek 9.4 untyped — —
Mill Brook 8.9 untyped — —
East Bay 8.1 untyped — —
Lewis Brook 7.4 untyped — —
Winchell Creek 7.2 untyped — —
Finel Hollow Brook 5.8 untyped — —
Endless Brook 4.9 untyped — —
Sucker Creek 3.7 untyped — —
Dry Brook 3.0 untyped — —
Castle Creek 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Old Champlain Canal 2.9 untyped — —
Champlain Canal 2.6 untyped — —
Big Hollow Brook 2.1 untyped — —
Snow Brook 1.6 untyped — —
Bumps Brook 1.2 untyped — —
Castleton River 0.0 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

5,043 acres in 4 units, which is 1.1% of the 439,961 acres the basin covers. Private inholdings carried in the same source file are excluded, here and on the map.

Managing agency Acres Share Units
City and township land 2,960 59% 2
State conservation department 2,083 41% 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.