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By Don Audette
and Beverly Hunter
Special to the Rappahannock News
Like to get a free aerial photo of your property? Like to see your place and neighborhood from the sky? Like to check out your hills and dales, streams, nearby roads?
To get your picture you fill out a short survey that was mailed this week by the volunteer group RappFLOW to all 1500 households that live or own land in the Upper Thornton River watershed. The survey is an opportunity for everyone to tell what they care and know about their local land and waters. It takes only about ten minutes and individual answers are kept anonymous.
The watershed covers about 93 square miles. It includes Washington, Sperryville, several hollows up to the Shenandoah National Park, all the rivers, streams, creeks, ponds, springs, or other waters that flow into the Upper Thornton River.
Check out the map nearby to see the general outline of the Upper Thornton River Watershed.
The Upper Thornton Watershed is divided into 13 smaller sub watersheds.
A map of the subwatersheds is included in the survey envelope.
The survey is assessing the health of each of these subwatersheds based on your concerns, as well as scientific assessment of land cover, vegetative stream buffers, protection by the Shenandoah National Park, Best Management Practices, water quality,
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