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By Don Aupette
Special to the Rappahannock News
The map shows part of the Upper Thornton River where a team of people is gathering data related to water quality in Rappahannock County.
It is a pilot study area of three square , miles or about 1,900 acres. Located near Sperryville along Route 522 heading toward Culpeper, it includes both the north and south branches of the Thornton River, plus Beaverdam Creek where it joins the Thornton River at Fletcher’s Mill.
Anyone on a tract of land can. follow the assessment process and imagine its use on their property. Thus, if you had a plat of your land and matched it with a U.S. Geological Survey map you could see from the contours which way water moved on the land, where it came from, and where it went. Rain and snowmelt moving across the property either seeps into the ground to replenish well water; evaporates; or flows into creeks, streams, drainage ditches, or ponds. Stream-flow eventually reaches the Chesapeake Bay via the Rappahannock River.
All rivers in Rappahannock County, the Jordan, Rush, Covington, Piney, Thornton,
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