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Lake Braddock (Pohick #7) was the first dam built in 1970, and impounds the Pohick Creek in Burke. Huntsman Lake (Pohick #8) was built in 1973, and impounds the Middle Run in Springfield. Lake Royal (Pohick #4) was completed in 1977, and impounds the Rabbit Branch in Burke above its confluence with the Sideburn Branch, where it forms Pohick Creek.
Lake Braddock is created by an impoundment on a tributary stream of Pohick Creek, itself a tributary of the Potomac River. In 1969, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and the Northern Virginia Soil District signed contracts which allowed the construction of the dam impounding the tributary of the Pohick creek in Burke. [1]
Difficult Run is a 15.9-mile-long (25.6 km) [1] tributary stream of the Potomac River in Northern Virginia in the United States. [2]The stream is part of a 57.7-square-mile drainage basin, or watershed, in the north-central portion of Fairfax County, Virginia.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the total area of the South Run CDP is 2.60 square miles (6.73 km 2), of which 2.53 square miles (6.56 km 2) is land and 0.066 square miles (0.17 km 2), or 2.52%, is water. [1] South Run, a tributary of Pohick Creek and part of the Potomac River watershed, flows from west to east through the center of CDP ...
An average of approximately 486 million US gallons (1,840,000 m 3) of water is withdrawn daily from the Potomac in the Washington area for water supply, providing about 78 percent of the region's total water usage, this amount includes approximately 80 percent of the drinking water consumed by the region's estimated 6.1 million residents. [5] [27]
Little Catoctin Creek (Maryland) Catoctin Creek (Maryland) Catoctin Creek (Virginia) Tuscarora Creek (Maryland) Monocacy River (Maryland/Pennsylvania) Little Monocacy River (Maryland) Limestone Branch (Virginia) Broad Run (Maryland) Goose Creek (Virginia) Broad Run (Virginia) Horsepen Branch (Maryland) Sugarland Run (Virginia) Seneca Creek ...
Pohick is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Pohick is centered between the intersections of Rolling and Telegraph Roads with Richmond Highway (U.S. Highway 1). It is adjacent to the communities of Lorton and Newington. Pohick takes its name from Pohick Church which in turn is named for Pohick Creek.
Pohick Bay Regional Park is a regional park on Pohick Bay of the Potomac River, in Fairfax County, ... and the Pirate's Cove water park. See also. NOVA Parks system;