What is a HUC 14?
The term “HUC-14” is from the hydrologic unit code system developed by the United States Geological Service for delineating and identifying drainage areas. The system starts with the largest possible drainage areas and progressively smaller subdivisions of the drainage area are delineated and numbered in a nested fashion. A drainage area with a hydrologic unit code (HUC) designation with 14 numbers, or HUC-14, is one of several sub watersheds of a larger watershed with 11 numbers, or a HUC-11. There are 921 HUC 14 sub watersheds in New Jersey that range in size from .1 to 42 square miles.
Related Questions
- If the majority of an Agricultural Operation is border line, in or out of the approved watershed, do we measure the operation acres to the HUC line?
- Why was the national database created on a HUC by HUC basis rather than creating the database in one large output file?
- What is a hydrologic unit code (HUC)?
