Saugatuck -- Cataloging Unit 01100006

• Connecticut Coastal Subregion 0110
  
• New England Region 01 (There are 53 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 86.5% Connecticut, 13.5% New York.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 1148.7 km² ( 443.7 mi² ) [% in USA = 5.64, % in Region = 13.21]
  The area from the USGS is 436 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1328)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 458781 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 99.5 m ( 326.4 ft ) [% in USA = 15.02, % in Region = 28.30]
  The elevation standard deviation is 60.6 m ( 198.8 ft ) [% in USA = 44.20, % in Region = 33.96]
  The coefficient of variation is 60.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 292.1 m ( 958.3 ft ) [% in USA = 40.79, % in Region = 15.09]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	20.1	31.1	59.5	80.9	97.1	121.3	137.0	152.2	182.4	292.1
  feet	0.0	65.9	102.0	195.2	265.4	318.6	398.0	449.5	499.3	598.4	958.3

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	498.2	309.7	0.434	0.698	94.88	81.13
  Intermittent Shoreline	1.1	0.7	0.001	0.002	53.77	94.34
  Perennial Streams	685.5	426.0	0.597	0.960	91.47	79.25
  Intermittent Streams	0.1	0.1	0.000	0.000	1.85	11.32
  Canals	0.9	0.6	0.001	0.001	44.01	75.47
  1° roads	201.4	125.2	0.175	0.282	98.86	94.34
  2° roads	85.2	53.0	0.074	0.119	95.12	94.34
  3° roads	322.9	200.7	0.281	0.452	98.20	83.02
  4° roads	4833.7	3004.2	4.208	6.771	98.86	98.11
  Total Roads	5443.2	3383.0	4.739	7.624	98.96	98.11
  Railroads	115.8	72.0	0.101	0.162	87.45	79.25
  Pipes and Powerlines	1.7	1.1	0.002	0.002	11.98	11.32

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.10% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 2.18, % in Region = 13.21]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu