Lake Ontario -- Cataloging Unit 04150200

• Northeastern Lake Ontario Subregion 0415
  
• Great Lakes Region 04 (There are 111 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% New York.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 19637.3 km² ( 7585.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 99.62, % in Region = 96.40]
  The area from the USGS is 3430 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 658)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 7754485 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 75.3 m ( 247.0 ft ) [% in USA = 11.89, % in Region = 0.90]
  The elevation standard deviation is 2.9 m ( 9.5 ft ) [% in USA = 1.28, % in Region = 0.90]
  The coefficient of variation is 3.9 %.
  The vertical relief is 167.0 m ( 547.9 ft ) [% in USA = 21.79, % in Region = 33.33]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	15.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	75.0	182.0
  feet	49.2	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	246.1	597.1

  

  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	369.2	229.5	0.019	0.030	18.90	4.50
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	45.05
  Perennial Streams	9.3	5.8	0.000	0.001	2.75	1.80
  Intermittent Streams	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	1.75	3.60
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	36.04
  1° roads	14.8	9.2	0.001	0.001	40.22	35.14
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	15.32
  3° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	4.07	1.80
  4° roads	220.9	137.3	0.011	0.018	0.33	3.60
  Total Roads	235.7	146.5	0.012	0.019	0.33	3.60
  Railroads	0.9	0.6	0.000	0.000	12.98	1.80
  Pipes and Powerlines	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	8.67	7.21

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 0.00% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 1.14, % in Region = 2.70]

  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