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Chowan River (NC) Meherrin River. Fountains Creek; Flat Rock Creek; North Meherrin River. ... ISBN 0-88490-177-7 This page was last edited on 8 November 2024, at 15: ...
Gold 566.4 27.9 Beaver: 1,163 54.3 Bluewater 392.5 12.5 Waitabit Creek 352.2 9.6 Blaeberry: 60 745.6 17.8 Kicking Horse: 1,815.4 40.9 Canyon Creek 161.7 4.9 Spillimacheen: 118 1,456.2 38 Bugaboo Creek 368.4 7.3 Forster Creek 592.4 8.8 Horsethief Creek 630.5 10 Toby Creek 673.5 9 Dutch Creek 676.5 7.9
The Robinson River is a 34.2-mile-long (55.0 km) [1] tributary of the Rapidan River in Madison County, Virginia, in the United States. It flows southeast through White Oak Canyon and Berry Hollow, under Routes 231 , 29 and 15 .
The Shenandoah River was contaminated with mercury which was released by a DuPont rayon manufacturing facility located in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 to 1950. [6] This mercury is still present in the fish population of the river today; data collected over the last several decades shows that mercury levels remain stable. [7]
The Roanoke River (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) runs 410 miles (660 km) long [1] through southern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina in the United States. [2] A major river of the southeastern United States, it drains a largely rural area of the coastal plain from the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains southeast across the Piedmont to Albemarle Sound.
In 1849, construction began on a system of locks and dams to render the creek navigable up to three large mills in the Loudoun Valley on the Little River, North Fork and main creek bed. Across the Potomac from the mouth of a creek, a special lock on the C&O Canal was constructed to allow canal boats from Goose Creek to enter the canal.
The Potomac River in Washington, D.C., with Arlington Memorial Bridge in the foreground and Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia in the background. The Potomac River runs 405 mi (652 km) from Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park in West Virginia on the Allegheny Plateau to Point Lookout, Maryland, and drains 14,679 sq mi (38,020 km 2). The ...
View of Maury River, Lexington, Rockbridge County, Virginia The Maury River has a history of destructive floods damaging nearby communities. Particularly notable were floods on October 12, 1870, on the death of Robert E. Lee, when the Maury River provided Lee a temporary coffin due to a dock washed away upriver; [7] and in 1936, 1969, 1985 and 1995. [4]