HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080441570
Bassin de East Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Addison, Essex, Rutland
Sub-basin area
195,8km²
Upstream area
2 829,7km²
Discharge
51,95m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Northwest Bay Brook686 km²
- Bassin de South Bay Creek311 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.0 km²64.8% of basin
- EssexNew York · United States55.9 km²28.5% of basin
- 13.3 km²6.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
East Creek
IUCN VNatural Area
5.47 km² overlap
East Creek
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.02 km² overlap
Sheepshead Island
IUCN VState Forest Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Signal Buoy Island
IUCN VState Forest Preserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 028 distinct species · 46 012 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de East Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,4°C
Annual rain
921mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
610mm/an
PET
953mm
AET
706mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
164cm
Forest
79%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)