Soil and Water Conservation Regional Offices by locality | Watershed size, tributaries | Conservation contacts (Yellow Pages) | Planning guide | Virginia watershed websites | Watershed Management Planning

Watershed size, tributaries

Conservation Contacts

We've put together a set of "yellow pages" for many of Virginia's major watersheds. Each is two pages and averages 35K. To view or print, you'll need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Visit this site to download the software. To download the yellow pages you need, just click on the watershed name below.

• Chesapeake Bay (PDF)
• Big Sandy (PDF)
• Chowan (PDF)
• Lower James (PDF)
• Middle James (PDF)
• New River (PDF)
• Potomac (PDF)
• Rappahannock (PDF)
• Roanoke (PDF)
• Shenandoah (PDF)
• Upper James (PDF)
• Upper Tennessee (Holston) (PDF)
• York (PDF)

DCR Soil and Water Conservation Program offices, by locality

A-B | C-D | E-F | G-H | I-J | K-L | M-N | O-P | Q-R | S-T | U-Z

Watershed planning guide

Local Watershed Management Planning In Virginia - Local and regional governments and community groups devote many resources to planning and development. This document examines those resources and helps those involved "pull it all together" from a whole watershed perspective. Click here to download (PDF, 4MB).

Click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat reader, which is required to view or print the guide.

Virginia watershed websites

Chesapeake Bay watershed profiles - About 60 percent of the commonwealth drains to the Chesapeake Bay, the world's most productive estuary. Those watersheds include the Potomac (including Shenandoah), Rappahannock, York and James rivers as well as coastal lands on the bay's shoreline. You can learn more about these watersheds by visiting the Chesapeake Bay Program's website that provides detailed profiles on each. Click here to visit the site. 

Click here to learn about the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program (managed by North Carolina; Virginia's Chowan River and land around the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake area drain into the region).

Click here to visit the Blackwater Nottoway Riverkeeper Program's website.

Click here to visit the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) river system index. Southwestern Virginia's Holston, Clinch and Powell rivers' watersheds drain to the Tennessee River.

Rivers and Watersheds - The Geology of Virginia (College of William and Mary)

Virginia Watershed Land Use (Virginia Tech, 4H)

Forests of the Eastern United States (Virginia Tech, 4H)