HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080525460

Bassin de Pohatcong 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 : Bucks, Northampton, Warren

11% lakePfafstetter: 73150639

Sub-basin area

230,3km²

Upstream area

15 924,4km²

Discharge

313,65m³/s

Mean elev.

166m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Delaware River1419 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Pequest River733 km²
Bassin de Monocacy Creek581 km²

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Warren
New Jersey · United States
193.4 km²
83.9% of basin
Northampton
Pennsylvania · United States
34.1 km²
14.8% of basin
Bucks
Pennsylvania · United States
3.1 km²
1.3% of basin

17 intersecting protected areas

Pequest
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
4.37 km² overlap
Mariton
IUCN V
Wildlife Sanctuary
0.82 km² overlap
Buttermilk Bridge
IUCN V
Preserve
0.74 km² overlap
Delaware Canal
IUCN III
State Park
0.52 km² overlap
Pohatcong Creek
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.44 km² overlap
Pohatcong
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.36 km² overlap
Buckhorn Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.30 km² overlap
Scotts Mountain
IUCN V
Preserve
0.24 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Warren, NJ
IUCN Not Assigned
Reserve Program
0.20 km² overlap

8 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not Assigned
Reserve Program
0.20 km² overlap
Rockport
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.18 km² overlap
Delaware Greenway Acquisition
IUCN Not Assigned
Greenway
0.18 km² overlap
Njcf #317
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.17 km² overlap
Hariton
IUCN V
Sanctuary
0.07 km² overlap
Scott's Mountain
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Phillipsburg Riverview Orga
IUCN Not Assigned
Other
0.01 km² overlap
Musconetcong River
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.00 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 235 distinct species · 280 249 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 34 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Pohatcong Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.161

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

9,8°C

Annual rain

1 190mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,12

Runoff

645mm/an

PET

1 048mm

AET

848mm

Mean slope

4,9°

Water table

295cm

Forest

92%

Crops

29%

Urban

16%

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)