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Upper Chesapeake

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-029221

The Chesapeake Bay and its tributary drainage north of the Maryland-Virginia state line including the Pocomoke River drainage, excluding the Susquehanna and Potomac River Basins; and the Coastal drainage from the Delaware Bay drainage boundary to Chincoteague Inlet on the Delmarva Peninsula. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Area = 8980 sq.mi.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-029221
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesUSGS Water Resources of the United States. Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-029221",
  "term": "Upper Chesapeake",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "The Chesapeake Bay and its tributary drainage north of the Maryland-Virginia state line including the Pocomoke River drainage, excluding the Susquehanna and Potomac River Basins; and the Coastal drainage from the Delaware Bay drainage boundary to Chincoteague Inlet on the Delmarva Peninsula. Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Area = 8980 sq.mi.",
  "references": [
    "USGS Water Resources of the United States. Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/upper-chesapeake/"
}

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