Open-File Report 2006-1308

Prepared in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

Drainage Areas of Selected Streams in Virginia

By Donald C. Hayes and Ute Wiegand

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ABSTRACT

Drainage areas were determined for more than 1,600 basins in the three major river basins of Virginia -- the North Atlantic Slope, South Atlantic Slope, and Ohio River Basins. Drainage areas range from 0.004 square mile to 7,866 square miles. A geographic information system was used to digitize and store data associated with the drainage basins. Drainage divides were digitized from digital U.S. Geological Survey 7.5-minute, 1:24,000-scale, topographic quadrangles using procedures recommended by the Subcommittee on Hydrology, Federal Interagency River Basin Committee. Digital drainage basins were quality assured, polygons of the closed drainage basins were generated, and drainage areas were computed.


CONTENTS

Abstract

Introduction

Methods

Quality Assurance

Drainage Areas

Summary

Acknowledgments

References Cited


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