NorthWest
NYS Watersheds |
Counties |
Population Centres |
Rivers, Streams |
Lakes, Reservoirs |
Great
Lakes Shoreline |
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Lake
Ontario and Minor Tributaries |
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Jefferson, pop 109,834[1] |
Clayton, pop <5000[2] |
Salmon River (639 river miles) |
Salmon River Reservoir (3,380 acres) |
326 miles |
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Orleans, pop 40,352[3] |
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Oak Orchard Creek (523 miles) |
Sodus Bay (3,360 acres) |
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Oswego, pop 117,124[4] |
New Haven, pop <5000[5] |
Irondequoit Creek (316 miles) |
North Pond (2,400 acres) |
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Wayne, pop 89,918[6] |
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Sandy Creek (303 miles) |
Irondequoit Bay (1,720 acres) |
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Monroe, pop 741,770[7] |
Penfield (1810), pop 37,280[8] |
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Perch Lake (1,480 acres) |
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Rochester, pop 205,695[9] |
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Niagara, pop 209,281[10] |
Lockport (1865) pop 20, 430[11] |
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Cayuga, pop 76,586[12] |
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Lewis, pop 26,296[13] |
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/48368.html |
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Toxics Chemicals in NYS Tributaries to Lake Ontario (Litten,
2009) (links to PDF at NYS Library) |
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Eighteenmile
Creek Watershed Management Plans (leaves DEC website) |
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population in Lake Ontario WS
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1411161 |
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Niagara River/ Lake Erie |
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Erie, population 918,702[14] |
Buffalo (1793) , pop 255, 284[15] |
Tonawanda Creek (1,538 river miles) |
Attica Reservoir (173 acres) |
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Niagara County, pop 209,281[16] |
Niagara (1812), Town, 8378 |
Cattaraugus Creek (1,435 miles) |
Lime Lake (160 acres) |
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Niagara Falls (1892), 47,720[17] |
Buffalo River (1,006 miles) |
Allegheny Reservoir (10,987 acres) |
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Cattaraugus pop 76,117[18] |
Yorkshire (1820) pop <5000 |
Rivers and Streams: 4,086 miles of freshwater rivers and streams. Major
tributary watersheds to the Allegheny River in New York State: |
Chautauqua Lake (13,427 acres) |
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Olean, pop 14,452[19] |
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Chautauqua, pop 126,903[20] |
Westfield (1833) pop
<5000 |
Conewango Creek (1,406 river/stream miles) |
Lakes, Ponds and Reservoirs: 23
significant freshwater lakes, ponds, and reservoirs (26,335 acres): |
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Jamestown, pop 29.058[21] |
Cassadaga Creek (586
miles, within Conewango Watershed) |
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Hanover |
Olean Creek (487 miles) |
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Genesee County pop 57,280[22] |
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Great Valley Creek (357 miles) |
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Wyoming County, pop 39,859[23] |
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French Creek (186 miles) |
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/48024.html |
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https://bnwaterkeeper.org/projects/healthyniagara/ |
• It’s located along the westernmost
portion of New York State and encompasses lands that drain into the Niagara
River, a channel that connects the Great Lakes of Erie and Ontario. |
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Niagara
Watershed Plan |
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• It’s part of the larger Great
Lakes Drainage Basin. |
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Scajaquada Creek
Watershed Management Plan |
• It encompasses 903,305 acres of
land, 71 municipalities, 3,193 miles of watercourses, and 52,979 acres of
state and federally listed wetlands. |
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population in Niagara/Erie WS
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1427872 |
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Oswego River/Finger Lakes |
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Seneca, pop 34,016[24] |
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Oneida River (2,330 river miles) |
Oneida Lake (51,091 acres) |
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Onondaga, pop 460,528[25] |
Syracuse, pop 142,327[26] |
Clyde River (1,630 miles) |
Cayuga Lake (42,812 acres) |
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Cayuga, pop 76,576[27] |
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Cayuga Lake Tributaries (1,500 miles) |
Seneca Lake (42,646 acres) |
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Tompkins, pop 102,180[28] |
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Seneca Lake Tributaries (1,240 miles) |
Keuka Lake (11,712 acres) |
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Schuyler, pop 17,807[29] |
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Canandaigua Lake (10,605 acres) |
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Yates, pop 24,913[30] |
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Ontario, pop 109,777[31] |
Canadaigua, pop 10,156[32] |
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Oswego, pop 117,124[33] |
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Oneida, pop 228,671[34] |
Rome, pop 32,148[35] |
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/48023.html |
Madison, pop 70,941[36] |
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Wayne (see Lake Ontario WS)[37] |
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Smaller parts of
Cortland, Chemung, Steuben and Livingston Counties. |
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population in Oswego River WS - approx |
1242533 |
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Genesee River |
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Livingston, pop 62,914[38] |
Geneseo (1790) pop
10623[39] |
Cassadaga Creek (828 river miles) |
Conesus Lake (3,208 acres) |
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Allegany ( see Allegheny River WS) |
Wellsville (1857), pop. <5000 |
Honeoye Creek (644 miles) |
Mount Morris Reservoir (2,074 acres) |
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Monroe, pop 741,770[40] |
Rochester (1788) pop 205,695[41] |
Oatka Creek (425 miles) |
Hemlock Lake (2,081 acres) |
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Genesee, pop 57,280[42] |
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Black Creek (377 miles) |
Honeoye Lake (1,797 acres) |
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Wyoming, pop 39,859[43] |
Warsaw (1803 ) pop <5000[44] |
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Ontario, pop 109,777[45] |
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Lewis, pop [46] |
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Small parts of Orleans,
Steuben and Cattaraugus Counties. |
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Population in the Watershed -
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https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/48371.html |
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The
Genesee River Watershed is almost entirely within New York State, except for
the upper 15 miles of the river and its drainage which originates in the
Allegheny Plateau of Northern Pennsylvania. The river flows north for about
140 miles before emptying into Lake Ontario at Rochester. |
population in Genessee WS - approx |
1011600 |
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Population
in Northwest Watersheds |
5093166 |
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