Atlantic seaboard watershed explained

Atlantic Seaboard
Type:Watershed
Map Size:330px
Location:Canada and the United States
Area Total Sq Mi:277,000

The Atlantic seaboard watershed is a watershed of the Atlantic Ocean in eastern North America along the Atlantic Canada (Maritimes) coast south of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence Watershed, and the East Coast of the United States north of the Kissimmee River watershed of Lake Okeechobee basin in the central Florida Peninsula.

The continental area east of the Appalachian Mountains and highlands to the north and south is demarcated on the south by drainage to the Lake Okeechobee basin (which drains both westward to the Gulf and eastward to ocean), the Eastern Continental Divide (ECD) to the west, and the Saint Lawrence divide to the north. US physiographic regions of this watershed are the Atlantic Plain and the Appalachian Mountains & Highlands.

Sub-watersheds adjacent to the Saint Lawrence divide:

2148sqmi[1]

69115sqmi

16246sqmi

>14000sqmi

Other notable sub-watersheds:

14119sqmi — larger than several, but not adjacent to either divide

Rehoboth Bay

Indian River Bay

64299sqmi — adjacent to both divides (at the Triple Divide point)

Sub-watersheds adjacent to the Eastern Continental Divide:

>14380sqmi[2]

>7221sqmi[3]

>4531sqmi[4]

9850sqmi

8840sqmi

>2800sqmi

3000sqmi

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Chedabucto Bay . 2010-04-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706181630/http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/ocean/ceice/Inlets/ChedabuctoBay2.htm . 2011-07-06 .
  2. Web site: Archived copy . 2010-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110718031355/http://www.deq.state.va.us/vrrbac/pdf/rrbpaper.pdf . 2011-07-18 . dead .
  3. http://www.ee.enr.state.nc.us/public/ecoaddress/riverbasins/yadkin.pdf
  4. Web site: Bureau of Water -- Outreach . 2010-08-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100603013011/https://www.scdhec.gov/environment/water/shed/santee_main.htm . 2010-06-03 . dead .