Public Works Department - Stormwater Management

Watershed Reports

    

Reports

Watershed Reports - Online

Watershed Reports - Upcoming

Maps

Master Drainage Map
    Interactive Graphic Map - all areas
    low resolution 28" x25" - 881 kb

Master Drainage Map     
    PDF format
      high resolution - 6.4 MB

Left Map: Highlighted areas on map link to watershed reports currently online.
Quick view - larger version of this map

What is watershed?

The term watershed refers to the geographic boundaries of a particular waterbody, its ecosystem and the land that drains to it.  A watershed also  includes groundwater aquifers that discharge to and receive discharge  from streams, wetlands, ponds, and lakes.  Large watersheds are sometimes referred to as river basins. 

Everyone lives in a watershed.  You and everyone in your watershed are part of the watershed community.  The animals, birds, and fish are too.  You influence what happens in your watershed, good or bad, by how you treat the natural resources, the soil, water, air, plants, and animals.  What happens in your small watershed also affects the larger watershed downstream.

The following reports are now available online for the following watershed locations:

• Butts Station Road
• Cooper's Ditch
• Deep Creek
• Milldam Creek
• New Mill Creek
• Southern Chesapeake (SC-2 and SC-3)
• St. Julian Creek

The following reports will be available in the near future:

• Southern Chesapeake (SC-1)
• Pocaty River
• South Norfolk
  

For more information, please contact:

Sam Sawan, P.E.
Senior Stormwater Engineer

Chesapeake Public Works Department
Engineering Division

Phone: 757-382-6101
FAX: 757-382-6310

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