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Upper Delaware River Watershed, New York

1,647 miles of mapped stream across 1,190 square miles of drainage in Delaware, Sullivan, Broome counties, in 98 named streams. New York designates 521 of those miles as trout water, on 93 streams. The 6 mainstem gauges with a July record read between 60.3 and 76.3°F in July.

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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 02040101 in the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset. Every figure below adds up the river pages in this basin — same records, one basin at a time.

1,647 mi
of mapped stream
7,687 NHD reaches
1,190 sq mi
drainage area
761,719 acres
60.3–76.3°F
July water temperature at the gauges
6 mainstem gauges, mean 70.3°F
30,337 ac
public land
4.0% of the basin · 20 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 62% of this basin's stream miles (1024.2 of 1,647); the rest is untyped and is drawn grey on the map above.

1024.2 of the 1024.2 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 62% of it.

Every named stream in the basin

All 98 of them, longest first. 20 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
West Branch Delaware River 81.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Oquaga Creek 19.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Little Delaware River 18.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Callicoon Creek 18.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Dry Brook 17.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Trout Creek 17.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Tenmile River 17.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
East Brook 11.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
North Branch Callicoon Creek 10.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Branch Cold Spring Creek 10.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Rose Brook 9.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Loomis Brook 9.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Elk Creek 9.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Brook 9.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Sands Creek 9.1 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Bagley Brook 8.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fly Creek 7.8 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Cold Spring Creek 7.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Town Brook 7.3 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Dryden Brook 7.1 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Beers Brook 6.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
East Branch Basket Creek 6.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Smith Mill Brook 6.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Wright Brook 6.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kerrs Creek 6.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Third Brook 6.2 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Betty Brook 6.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Platner Brook 6.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Peaks Brook 5.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Brush Brook 5.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Falls Creek 5.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
East Platner Brook 5.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kidd Brook 5.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Steele Brook 5.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
North Branch Basket Creek 5.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Marsh Creek 5.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Buck Brook 5.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
West Branch Trout Creek 5.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Pines Brook 5.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Panther Rock Brook 5.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Butler Brook 4.9 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Sherruck Brook 4.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Steam Mill Branch 4.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Calkins Creek 4.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Laundry Brook 4.6 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
Jaketown Creek 4.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Lake Brook 4.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Johnny Brook 4.5 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Honest Brook 4.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Perry Pond Brook 4.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
East Branch Tenmile River 4.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Angel Mill Brook 4.2 untyped — —
Chase Brook 4.1 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Tarbell Brook 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Joe Brook 4.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Hurd Brook 4.0 untyped — —
Nebraska Brook 4.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Coulter Brook 3.9 Cold — Class AA — drinking water source, Class C — fishing
The Gulf 3.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Sand Pond Outlet 3.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Fish Brook 3.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Horseshoe Brook 3.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Tyler Brook 3.5 Cold — Class C — fishing
Birch Ridge Brook 3.5 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
McMurdy Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Kiff Brook 3.2 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mallory Brook 3.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Shingle Brook 3.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Chamberlain Brook 2.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Basset Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bullock Brook 2.8 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Jones Brook 2.8 Cold — Class C — fishing
Wakeman Brook 2.7 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Page Pond Brook 2.7 Cold — Class C — fishing
Mountain Brook 2.6 Cold — Class C — fishing
Bobs Brook 2.6 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Hoffman Brook 2.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Toll Gate Brook 2.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Whitaker Brook 2.3 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Bone Creek 2.2 untyped — —
Lily Brook 2.2 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Cabin Brook 2.1 Cold — Class C — fishing
Weeds Brook 2.0 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation, Class C — fishing
Windfall Brook 2.0 Cold — Class C — fishing
Barbour Brook 2.0 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Hughes Brook 1.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Maxwell Brook 1.9 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Callicoon Creek 1.9 Cold — Class C — fishing
Crystal Brook 1.6 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Johnson Brook 1.6 untyped — —
Platner Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Spencer Brook 1.4 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Pine Swamp Brook 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Basket Creek 1.4 Cold — Class C — fishing
Shingle Creek 1.4 Cold — Class B — swimming and contact recreation
Bear Brook 1.3 Cold — Class C — fishing
Johnnie Brook 1.2 Cold — Class A — drinking water source
Spruce Creek 1.1 untyped — —

Public land in the watershed

30,337 acres in 20 units, which is 4.0% of the 761,719 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 17,186 57% 12
City and township land 11,859 39% 5
State park agency 1,275 4% 2
County land 17 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.