(a) Pursuant to article 12 of the Public Health Law, the Water Resources Commission, after proper study and following a public hearing conducted by the former Water Pollution Control Board, held on due notice, hereby adopts and assigns the following classifications and standards of quality and purity to all surface waters within the East Canada Creek drainage basin, as hereinafter defined. Said drainage basin includes all land and surface water areas of the East Canada Creek drainage basin except the waters contained within boundaries of State-owned forest preserve lands.

(b) This adoption and assignment of standards of quality and purity to the above designated waters shall be effective February 1, 1963.