New England Water Resource Region
The New England Water Resource Region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined drainage areas of a series of rivers.[1][2]
The New England region, which is listed with a 2-digit HUC code of 01, has an approximate size of 73,753 square miles, and consists of 11 sub-regions, which are listed with the 4-digit HUC codes of 0101 through 0111.
This region includes the drainage within the United States that ultimately discharges into: (a) the Bay of Fundy; (b) the Atlantic Ocean within and between the states of Maine and Connecticut; (c) Long Island Sound north of the New York-Connecticut state line; and (d) the Riviere St. Francois, a tributary of the Saint Lawrence River. Includes all of Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and parts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont.[3]
Listing of Water Resource Sub-Regions
| Sub-Region HUC[4] | Sub-Region Name[4] | Sub-Region Description[3] | Sub-Region Location[4] | Sub-Region Size (mi2)[4] | Sub-Region Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0101 | St. John | The St. John River Basin within the United States. | Located in Maine. | 14,092 |  |
| 0102 | Penobscot | The Penobscot River Basin. | Located in Maine. | 8,616 |  |
| 0103 | Kennebec | The Kennebec River Basin, including part of Merrymeeting Bay. | Located in Maine. | 5,895 |  |
| 0104 | Androscoggin | The Androscoggin River Basin, including part of Merrymeeting Bay. | Located in Maine and New Hampshire. | 3,527 |  |
| 0105 | Maine Coastal | The coastal drainage and associated waters from the Maine-New Brunswick international boundary to Cape Small, Maine, including the St. Croix River Basin within the United States. | Located in Maine. | 11,558 |  |
| 0106 | Saco | The coastal drainage and associated waters from Cape Small, Maine to the Merrimack River Basin Boundary. | Located in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. | 4,809 |  |
| 0107 | Merrimack | The Merrimack River Basin. | Located in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. | 5,007 |  |
| 0108 | Connecticut | The Connecticut River Basin. | Located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. | 11,265 |  |
| 0109 | Massachusetts-Rhode Island Coastal | The coastal drainage and associated waters from the Merrimack River Basin boundary to and including the Pawcatuck River Basin. | Located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. | 4,439 |  |
| 0110 | Connecticut Coastal | The coastal drainage into Long Island Sound from the Pawcatuck River Basin boundary to and including the Byram River Basin, excluding the Connecticut River Basin, and including Long Island Sound north of the New York-Connecticut state line. | Located in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island. | 4,545 |  |
| 0111 | St. Francois | The Riviere St. Francois Basin within the United States. | Located in Vermont. | 590 |  |
See also
References
- ↑ "Science in Your Watershed - Locate Your Watershed". USGS. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- ↑ "Hydrologic Unit Maps". USGS. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- 1 2 "Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units". USGS. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
- 1 2 3 4 McManamay RA, Bevelhimer MS, Kao SC, Yaxing W, Martinez-Gonzalez M, Samu N (2013). "National Hydropower Asset Assessment Environmental Attribution". USGS-Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Retrieved 2016-10-12.