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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 Surveys and Planning

Projects in West Virginia:


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
  • Marlin Run - Pocahontas
  • Wolf Creek - Fayette
  • Daves-Fork-Christian Fork - Mercer
  • Bluewell PSD Dam Removal - Mercer and Tazwell County, VA
  • Little White Stick - Raleigh
  • Mill Creek - Mason, Roane and Jackson
  • Salt Lick Creek - Braxton
  • Cheat River (Friends of Cheat) - Monongalia, Preston, Pocahontas, Tucker, and Randolph
  • Newburg Dam - Monongalia, Preston, and Taylor

Submitted

  • Buffalo Creek - Brooke, Ohio and Washington, PA
  • Hartland Dam - Harrison
  • Wells Lock and Dam - Wirt