U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Prepared in cooperation with the SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS REPORT 2009–5227 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Location of rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, and large wetlands—APPENDIX 1, FIGURE 1-1 Archfield, S. A., Vogel, R. M., Steeves, P. A., Brandt, S. L., Weiskel, P. K., and Garabedian, S. P., 2010 The Massachusetts Sustainable-Yield Estimator: A decision-support tool to assess water availability at ungaged stream locations in Massachusetts

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Stream order only increases when tributaries to the next stream are of the same order. A first order tributary joining a second order tributary will not 8 - DEERFIELD 17 - NARRAGANSETT BAY 26 - TEN MILE

B r 14 o change a stream to a third order if the latter stream has already been assigned as second order. See example below. o

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1 BLUFFS GOSNOLD (Circled numbers indicate the assigned Strahler order) SCALE 1:253,440 25 0 25 MILES WE ST T IS B UR Y E D GA R T O W N 25 0 25 KILOMETERS

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Base from Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS), digital data, 1:100,000 U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Hydrography Dataset Medium Resolution, 1:100,000, 2005; Lambert conformal conic projection Office of Geographic and Environmental Information (MassGIS), Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; North American datum of 1983 U.S. Geological Survey Topographic Quadrangle Images, 1:25,000, 2001; Hydrography, 1:100,000, 2000; Community Boundaries, 1:25,000, 2002; Location of Rivers, Streams, Lakes, Reservoirs, and Large Wetlands in Massachusetts Strahler, A.N., 1952, Hypsometric (area altitude) analysis of erosional topology: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 63, p. 1,117–1,142 By Lance J. Ostiguy, Peter K. Weiskel, and Stacey A. Archfield 2010