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St. Regis River Watershed, New York

1,804 miles of mapped stream across 854 square miles of drainage in Franklin, St. Lawrence counties, in 73 named streams. New York designates 406 of those miles as trout water, on 63 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 04290006 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,804 mi
of mapped stream
4,282 NHD reaches
854 sq mi
drainage area
546,764 acres
119,163 ac
public land
21.8% of the basin · 18 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 37% of this basin's stream miles (676.3 of 1,804); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

676.3 of the 676.3 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 37% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 73 of them, longest first. 3 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
Saint Regis River 96.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
West Branch Saint Regis River 77.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Deer River 63.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Trout Brook 41.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Saint Regis River 26.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Long Pond Outlet 23.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Brook 16.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hays Brook 14.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lake Ozonia Outlet 14.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Stony Brook 14.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Osgood River 13.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lawrence Brook 13.7 untyped — —
Hopkinton Brook 12.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Quebec Brook 11.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alder Meadow Brook 9.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Windfall Brook 8.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dan Wright Brook 8.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Alburg Brook 8.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Allen Brook 8.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Joy Brook 7.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rosenbarker Brook 6.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Balsam Brook 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Redwater Brook 6.4 untyped — —
Big Hollow Brook 6.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kingston Brook 5.9 untyped — —
Mud Pond Outlet 5.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Jenkins Brook 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Goose Pond Brook 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Downey Brook 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sucker Brook 5.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Barton Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Beaver Brook 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tucker Brook 5.0 untyped — —
Cold Hill Brook 4.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dexter Lake Outlet 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Leach Pine Brook 4.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pleasant Brook 4.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rice Brook 4.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bell Brook 4.0 untyped — —
Big Cold Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Black Brook 3.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Randle Meadow Brook 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Winnebago Brook 3.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Ghost Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Clear Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fenner Meadow Brook 2.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Santimaw Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mile Brook 2.8 untyped — —
Hogback Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Twin Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lyde Brook 2.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dugway Brook 2.4 untyped — —
Cady Brook 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Onion River 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Conger Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
McDonald Inlet 1.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Blind Pond Outlet 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
The Bog Outlet 1.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Little Cold Brook 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crandall Brook 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Miller Brook 1.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Cove Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Benham Brook 1.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Elbow Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Weller Pond Outlet 1.4 untyped — —
Cox Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Goodnow Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dan Brook 1.2 untyped — —
Roaring Brook 1.1 untyped — —
Thomas Brook 1.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mountain Brook 1.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Willis Brook 0.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
McDonald Outlet 0.4 Cold — Class C — fishing

Public land in the watershed

119,163 acres in 18 units, which is 21.8% of the 546,764 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 116,732 98% 16
County land 2,079 2% 1
Another state agency 352 0% 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.