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Elkwater Fork Dam

West Virginia Watershed Operations

The Watershed and Flood Prevention Operations (WFPO) Program (Watershed Operations) includes the Flood Prevention Operations Program authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-534) and the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 (P.L. 83-566).

Watershed Planning Initiatives

Ongoing Projects:

Upcoming Projects: 

  • Warm Springs Run (Morgan County)
  • Sleepy Creek (Morgan County, Frederick County, VA)
  • Three Fork Creek (Preston County)
  • Wolf Creek (Fayette County)
  • Coal River (Kanawha County)

Preliminary Investigation Feasibility Reports

Watershed and County

  • Patterson Creek - Grant and Mineral 
  • South Fork - Hardy and Pendleton
  • New Creek - Grant and Mineral
  • Sleepy Creek - Berkley, Morgan, and Fredrick County, VA
  • Warm Springs Run - Morgan
  • Harmon Creek - Brooke, Hancock, and Washington County, PA
  • Upper Grave Creek - Marshall and Greene County, PA
  • Salem Fork - Harrison 
  • Polk Creek - Lewis
  • Elk Creek - Harrison, Barbour and Upshur
  • Upper Buffalo Creek - Marion
  • Upper Deckers Creek - Monongalia and Preston
  • Meadow River - Greenbrier, Fayette, Nicholas, and Summers 
  • Howard Creek - Greenbrier
  • Knapp Creek - Pocahontas
  • Wolf Creek - Fayette
  • Daves Fork-Christian Fork - Mercer
  • Bluewell - Mercer and Tazwell County, VA
  • Little Whitestick - Raleigh
  • Mill Creek - Mason, Roane and Jackson
  • Salt Lick Creek - Braxton
  • Cheat River - Monongalia, Preston, Pocahontas, Tucker, and Randolph
  • Three Forks Creek (Newburg Dam) - Monongalia, Preston, and Taylor
  • Piney Creek