Quality of water and bottom material in Breckenridge Reservoir, Virginia, September 2008 through August 2009

Lotspeich, R. Russell

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“…Since 1983, the USGS Virginia Water Science Center has collected streamflow, water-quality, and suspended sediment information for a number of streams on the USMC Base Quantico as well as another manmade reservoir, Lunga Reservoir. This bathymetric survey in this report was conducted along with a water-quality assessment to provide the NREA with information regarding the general condition of Breckenridge Reservoir (Lotspeich, 2012).…”

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Bathymetric contours of Breckenridge Reservoir, Quantico, Virginia

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Lotspeich²,

Banks³

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Breckenridge Reservoir, built in 1938, is fed by Chopawamsic Creek and South Branch Chopawamsic Creek. The Reservoir is a main source of drinking water for the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Base in Quantico, Virginia. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the USMC, conducted a bathymetric survey of Breckenridge Reservoir in March 2009. The survey was conducted to provide the USMC Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs (NREA) with information regarding reservoir storage capacity and general bathymetric properties. The bathymetric survey can provide a baseline for future work on sediment loads and deposition rates for the reservoir. Bathymetric data were collected using a boat-mounted Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) differential global positioning system (DGPS), echo depth-sounding equipment, and computer software. Data were exported into a geographic information system (GIS) for mapping and calculating area and volume. Reservoir storage volume at the time of the survey was about 22,500,000 cubic feet (517 acre-feet) with a surface area of about 1,820,000 square feet (41.9 acres).

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