Please see below (after the transcript and show notes) for links to news and upcoming events.
TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio for the week of April 8, 2013.
This week, we feature a tune about springtime stream
paddling that touches on many aspects of a key water resources concept: the watershed. Have a listen for about a minute.
MUSIC
You’ve been listening to an excerpt from “Mountain Stream”
by Bob Gramann of Fredericksburg, with Laura Lengnick on fiddle, from the 2001
CD “See Further in the Darkness.” A
watershed is the land area that drains into a specific body of water. In Virginia, the watersheds of most of our
major rivers start with streams flowing down mountain slopes. While water moving downhill is the most basic
part of any watershed, different watersheds have distinctive features because
of particular landscapes, geology, wildlife, vegetation, climate, and human
land uses. Stream paddlers—whether in
mountains or flat land, in spring or some other season—become part of
watersheds in action. Thanks to Bob
Gramann for permission to use this week’s music.
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia
water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the
Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo,
thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
(All Web site
addresses noted were functional as of 4/8/13.)
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| A southwest Virginia mountain stream: Wolf Creek (a New River tributary) near Narrows, Va. (Giles County), April 17, 2008. |
Sources: An
introduction to watersheds in Virginia is available in “Divide and Confluence,”
Virginia Water Central, February
2000, online at http://www.vwrrc.vt.edu/watercentral.html;
and at the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation Web site at http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/stormwater_management/wsheds.shtml. Information on watersheds nationwide is
available from the U.S. EPA’s “Surf Your Watershed” Web site, at http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm,
and many other sources.
Recent Virginia Water
News
For
news relevant to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper,
available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/.
Water Meetings and
Other Events
For
events related to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Quick Guide to Virginia Water–related
Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events, online at http://virginiawaterevents.wordpress.com/. The site includes a list of Virginia
government policy and regulatory meetings occurring in the coming week.
