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 Lake Newport Watershed - Reston, VirginiaPosted by:  flyingmoose
N 38° 58.317 W 077° 20.633
18S E 296946 N 4316276
Lake Newport Watershed is a small watershed within the Reston Community.
Waymark Code: WM12V62
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 07/17/2020
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Lake Newport is Reston's youngest lake, but has the longest dam, extending about 800 feet. Lake Newport has the smallest watershed (the land mass that drains into the lake) at 132 acres and is part of the larger Lake Anne Watershed. Newport's output is channeled by pipe under Baron Cameron Avenue into Lake Anne.
The lake belongs to the Reston community and is managed by the Reston Association. The association's active maintenance, water quality monitoring, fisheries stocking, wildlife habitat improvement, water safety education, and dredging to remove sediment.
Problems faced by Reston's lakes are storm water runoff, sediment, excessive aquatic plant growth, and litter.
"When one tugs at a single thing in Nture, he finds it attached to everything in the universe."
John Muir
American Naturalist
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