HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080526650
Bassin de Raritan Power Canal
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 1 administrative regions : Somerset
Sub-basin area
63,8km²
Upstream area
1 277,8km²
Discharge
27,03m³/s
Mean elev.
39m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Somerset63.9 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Somerset, NJ
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
1.57 km² overlap
Raritan River
IUCN VGreenway
0.62 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.54 km² overlap
Chipman Tract
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.05 km² overlap
Open Space
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Raritan River
IUCN Not AssignedGreenway
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 030 distinct species · 318 048 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Raritan Power Canal : 29 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 184mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
666mm/an
PET
1 075mm
AET
864mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
108cm
Forest
72%
Crops
11%
Urban
64%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)