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Part 924: Eastern Suffolk County Waters

(Statutory authority: Environmental Conservation Law, § 17-0301)

Contents:

Sec.

• 924.1 Adopting Order
• 924.2 Designated Waters
• 924.3 Definitions and Conditions
• 924.4 Special Conditions
• 924.5 Assigned Classifications and Standards of Quality and Purity
• 924.6 Table I
• 924.7 Map 1
• 924.8 Map 2
• 924.9 Quadrangle Maps

§924.1 Adopting Order

Pursuant to article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law, after proper study and following public hearings held on due notice, the Department of Environmental Conservation hereby adopts and assigns the following classifications and standards of quality and purity to all surface waters within the designated drainage basin of Eastern Suffolk County Waters, as hereinafter described.

§924.2 Designated Waters

The Eastern Suffolk County Waters drainage basin shall be deemed to include the following areas:

(a) All land and surface water areas within Suffolk County, State of New York, lying east of a topographical limit line and its extensions to a point in Long Island Sound at the New York - Connecticut state line due north of Luce Landing and to a point three miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean at the state boundary line and due south of Mecox Coast Guard Station. Said topographical limit line is coterminous with the easterly limit line of Peconic River - Flanders Bay drainage basin, and is also coterminous with the northerly limit line of Shinnecock Bay - Mecox Bay drainage basin.

(b) All of the Eastern Suffolk County Waters as defined in Table I included herein.

§924.3 Definitions and Conditions

The several terms, words or phrases hereinafter mentioned shall be construed as follows:

(a) Item No. In Table I an item number is assigned consecutively to each specifically designated waters or portion thereof.

(b) Waters index number as appearing in Table I shall mean that number or abbreviation assigned to any designated waters or portion thereof for the purpose of identification.

(1) The numbering or index system used to identify specific waters of New York State was adapted from that used by the New York State Conservation Department in its biological survey series of reports on watersheds of the State. The primary waters of a drainage area, such as a river, large lake, bay or sound, is usually referred to by name or an abbreviation. Tributaries of primary river waters are consecutively numbered progressing upstream from the mouth. Tributaries of primary lake, bay or sound waters are consecutively numbered in a clockwise order from a defined point, usually the outlet of the primary waters. Subtributaries are numbered as encountered along the tributary proceeding from its mouth to the source, and in like manner all of its other stream courses are so numbered. Ponds and lakes are numbered in the order they are encountered within the system. Tributaries of such lakes and ponds are numbered consecutively as they enter, progressing clockwise around the lake or pond from its outlet or mouth. The numbers assigned to such lakes and ponds are prefixed by the letter P. When isolated lakes and ponds are referenced by a waters index number, it is merely for convenience of their identification and location within a subdrainage basin, and it is not necessarily indicative of their being tributary to any waters to which no surface connection is shown on the reference maps.

(2) This system was applied to the basin under consideration by the Conservation Department in its report, A Biological Survey of the Fresh Waters of Long Island--1938, and has been closely followed in connection with the identification of the waters with the following exceptions: Some of the stream numbers do not run consecutively due to the omission of streams originally shown on the older maps employed by the Conservation Department at the time of its survey but not shown on newer maps reproduced herein. Conversely, a few streams not shown on the older maps but appearing on the newer maps are designated by the letters a, b, c, etc.

(3) There are several primary indices used to identify the designated waters. Those waters that drain Long Island proper are identified by waters index numbers prefixed by the abbreviation LIS. Those waters that drain Shelter Island Sound proper are identified by waters index numbers prefixed by the abbreviation SIS. Those waters draining Gardiners Island and Fishers Island are identified by waters index numbers prefixed with either "Gardiners Island" or "Fishers Island", as the case may be.

(4) The system as applied to the identification of waters in the drainage basin of Eastern Suffolk County may be illustrated as follows:

(c) The abbreviations trib., tribs., subtrib. and subtribs., indicating tributary, tributaries, subtributary and subtributaries, respectively, shall mean any stream, pond or other body of surface water which flows into any other stream, pond or other body of surface water; where no tributary, tributaries, subtributary or subtributaries are mentioned, the specifically designated waters shall include only the stream, pond or other body of water referenced by such waters index number; where a tributary, tributaries, subtributary or subtributaries are mentioned after the waters index number, the specifically designated waters shall include the stream, pond or other body of water referenced by such waters index number and all tributaries and subtributaries thereof, which are shown on the reference maps, excluding numbered ponds, unless exceptions are expressly stated.

(d) Name as appearing in Table I shall mean the name by which the specifically designated waters are known and which name may appear on the reference maps. In cases of specifically designated waters which have no name, the named waters to which the unnamed waters are tributary are identified as far as possible.

(e) Description. The column headed "Description" contains designations of segments or sections of waters under consideration to which a particular assignment of a class and standards shall apply. Also included in this column is any useful information pertinent to the classification or standards.

(f) Map Ref. No. as appearing in Table I, means map reference number and indicates one or more of the following numbered maps reproduced herein completely or in part in section 924.9, infra, on which maps the specifically designated waters and their index numbers are shown within the topographical limit line of the described drainage basins or areas. An index for map numbers is shown on Map 2, section 924.8, infra. The following maps were produced from original maps which may be procured through the Washington Distribution Section, Geological Survey, Silver Spring, Maryland:

(g) Class, as appearing in Table I and denoted by the letters A, B, C, D, SA, SC and SD opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean Class A, B, C, D, SA, SC and SD, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701, supra.

(h) Standards, as appearing in Table I and denoted by the letters A, B, C, D, SA, SC and SD opposite each specifically designated waters, shall mean the quality standards established for Class A, B, C, D, SA, SC and SD, as the case may be, as set forth in Part 701, supra. The symbol (T) appearing after any class designation shall mean that the designated waters are trout waters and that the dissolved oxygen specification for trout waters shall apply thereto.

(i) The term trout as used in this Part means any fish in the following genera: Coregonus, Oncorhynchus, Prosopium, Salmo, Salvelinus and Thymallus.

§924.4 Special Conditions

(a) All streams, ponds, estuaries or other bodies of water which appear as lines, to indicate natural waters, on the reference maps herein, and which are not specifically designated in Table I, shall be assigned the same classes and standards of quality and purity as the specifically designated waters to which they are directly tributary.

(b) All streams, ponds, estuaries or other bodies of water which are not shown on the reference maps herein shall be assigned to Class D, as set forth in Part 701, supra, except that any continuous flowing natural stream which is not shown on the reference maps shall have the same classification and assigned standards as the waters to which it is directly tributary; or, if they be tidal salt waters, such waters which are not shown on the reference maps herein shall be assigned to Class SD, as set forth in Part 701, supra, except that any continuous flowing natural stream which is not shown on the reference maps shall have the same classification and assigned standards as the waters to which it is directly tributary.

§924.5 Assigned Classifications and Standards of Quality and Purity

The classifications and standards of quality and purity assigned to the surface waters specifically designated and described herein are set forth in Table I subject to the definitions and conditions stated above.

§924.6 Table I

§924.7 Map 1

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§924.8 Map 2

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§924.9 Quadrangle Maps

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