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The Dragon Run watershed in the U.S. state of Virginia encompasses 140 square miles (360 km 2) and is home to many flora and fauna species.The brackish water stream, labeled on topographic maps as Dragon Swamp, [1] is fed by underground springs, surface runoff, and numerous feeding swamps. [2]
Grassy Creek rises about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of Centerville, Virginia, and then flows northeast to join the Dan River about 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Omega. [ 3 ] Watershed
The watershed of the entire Chesapeake Bay covers 165,760 km 2 (approximately 64,000 mi 2 or 41 million acres [3] [4]). With an estuary water body area of only 11,600 km 2 (4,479 mi 2), [5] the land-to-water ratio is about 14:1. [6] Therefore, the rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay have a large influence on water quality in the estuary.
In this portion, the western drainage of the divide flows into the watersheds of the New River and Tennessee River, both tributaries of the Ohio River. The eastern drainage flows into the watersheds of the Roanoke River, Pee Dee River, and Santee River. [5] The divide initially separates the headwaters of the New River from that of the Roanoke ...
The river and its tributaries drain the central and lower Shenandoah Valley and the Page Valley in the Appalachians on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, in northwestern Virginia and the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. [1] There is a hydroelectric plant along the Shenandoah River constructed in 2014 by Dominion.
) The bridge was built between 1801 and 1803 and is the longest remaining stone turnpike bridge in the state of Virginia. In The Water Dancer, a slave narrative style novel by Ta-Nehisi Coats, the Goose serves as both a water symbol and the geographic location of the fictionalized tobacco farm, Lockless, Virginia. [3]
The York River is a navigable estuary, approximately 34 miles (55 km) long, [4] in eastern Virginia in the United States. It ranges in width from 1 mile (1.6 km) at its head to 2.5 miles (4.0 km) near its mouth on the west side of Chesapeake Bay. Its watershed drains an area of the coastal plain of Virginia north and east of Richmond.
The watershed includes about 4% open water and an area with a population of 2.5 million people (2000). The James River forms near Iron Gate on the border between Alleghany and Botetourt counties, from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson rivers in the Appalachian Mountains. It flows into the Chesapeake Bay at Hampton Roads.