Hackensack-Passaic -- Cataloging Unit 02030103

• Lower Hudson Accounting Unit 020301
  
• Lower Hudson-Long Island Subregion 0203
  
• Mid-Atlantic Region 02 (There are 95 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 80.8% New Jersey, 19.2% New York.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2953.0 km² ( 1140.6 mi² ) [% in USA = 45.90, % in Region = 54.74]
  The area from the USGS is 1120 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 3175)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1180086 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 144.0 m ( 472.4 ft ) [% in USA = 19.61, % in Region = 42.11]
  The elevation standard deviation is 104.6 m ( 343.2 ft ) [% in USA = 56.80, % in Region = 60.00]
  The coefficient of variation is 72.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 427.0 m ( 1400.9 ft ) [% in USA = 50.12, % in Region = 41.05]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	26.6	48.9	68.8	91.0	118.7	152.0	198.0	246.8	304.2	427.0
  feet	0.0	87.3	160.4	225.7	298.6	389.4	498.7	649.6	809.7	998.0	1400.9

  

  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	1197.1	744.0	0.405	0.652	94.32	84.21
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.3	0.2	0.000	0.000	30.93	60.00
  Perennial Streams	1923.9	1195.7	0.652	1.048	94.74	88.42
  Intermittent Streams	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	1.75	9.47
  Canals	22.1	13.8	0.008	0.012	62.96	76.84
  1° roads	601.3	373.7	0.204	0.328	99.43	96.84
  2° roads	189.8	118.0	0.064	0.103	91.52	72.63
  3° roads	388.3	241.3	0.132	0.212	81.48	45.26
  4° roads	13896.0	8636.4	4.706	7.572	99.15	93.68
  Total Roads	15075.4	9369.4	5.105	8.214	99.15	93.68
  Railroads	673.0	418.2	0.228	0.367	98.67	95.79
  Pipes and Powerlines	32.3	20.1	0.011	0.018	25.68	14.74

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.01% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 1.28, % in Region = 5.26]

  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