North Carolina’s River Basins

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5 Elizabethtown Singletar y PENDER. R. RO BE SO N Lake iv Cape Loo kout er R Bl Burgaw iv ac Holly er k Shelter Swamp Areas R. iv er Whiteville This map is provided by the Office of Environmental Stream Watch will provide Lake Education and Public Affairs in the Department information about how to Waccamaw NEW. of Environment and Natural Resources. adopt or keep an eye on a MAP BY LEE RATCLIFFE, FROM THE NOV. 1999 SPECIAL. stream near you. (919) 715-5435. COLUMBUS. Green Swamp Wilmington of North Carolina's River Basins W. ISSUE OF WILDLIFE IN North CAROLINA MAGAZINE, I N S Q U A R E M I L E S. a Bolivia c H A N OV E R. c RIVERS OF North CAROLINA. PUBLISHED BY THE. a m WILDLIFE RESOURCES COMMISSION. BASE MAP B RU N S W I C K Cape Fear 9,164. aw COPYRIGHT JOHN FELS, 1997. Ri Yadkin-PeeDee 7,221. ve r SOURCES: NCDENR DIVISION OF WATER QUALITY;. NCDENR OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. Tar-Pamlico 6,148. What Is a River Basin? Neuse 6,062. AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS; DEPARTMENT OF.

6 TRANSPORTATION. Cape F ear Roanoke 3,493. Pasquotank 3,366. River basin encompasses all the land surface drained by many finger-like streams and creeks flowing downhill into one another A and eventually into one River , which forms its artery and backbone. As a bathtub catches all the water that falls within its sides and directs the water out its drain, a River basin sends all the water falling within its surrounding ridges into its system of creeks and streams to gurgle and splash downhill into its River and out to an estuary or the ocean. Lumber Catawba French Broad Little Tennesse 3,329. 3,285. 2,829. 1,797. The shape of a River basin comes from the collective and opposing forces of mountain-building and weathering. Geological forces Discover Your Broad White Oak 1,514. 1,382. push mountains up into the sky, and weathering from rain and wind wears mountainsides into hillsides and valleys and plains. A. jigsaw puzzle of River Basins reflects in three dimensions the outcome of these combined forces molding the landscape.

7 Ecological Address! Chowan New 1,298. 754. As an artery connects the parts of a body to one another, so a River threads together the creeks and streams, valleys and hills, springs Your River basin is one part of your ecological address. To learn more Hiwassee 644. Watauga 205. and lakes that share a common assembly of water. What happens to the surface or underground water in one part of the River basin about your ecological address, contact the Office of Environmental Savannah 171. will find its way to other parts. If water is diverted out of its usual course in one part of a River basin, other parts will know its absence. Education and Public Affairs at (919) 733-0711 or check out the Amazon* 2,300,000. A River basin comes closer than any other defined area of land, with the exception of an isolated island, to meeting the definition of Web site at Mississippi* 1,240,000. *for comparison an ecosystem in which all things are connected and interdependent.

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