TMDL Implementation Plans
Big Otter River Implementation Plan
An Implementation Plan for the Big Otter Watershed has been completed as of July 2006. Please download the Big Otter IP Summary Report or the full report for additional information on the project.
This project included the development of an implementation plan for the Big Otter River Watershed for a bacterial impairment. The Big Otter River (BOR) basin is 388 square miles in area and is located in Bedford and Campbell Counties of Virginia. The BOR is a tributary of the Roanoke River (USGS Hydrologic Unit Code 03010101), which discharges into Buggs Island Lake, Lake Gaston, and continues to discharge into Albemarle Sound on North Carolina’s coast. Forest and pasture lands comprise about 86% of the BOR basin area. The rest of the area is divided into cropland (2.03%), rural residential (6.66%), commercial/industrial (1.09%), and high density residential (4.22%), which includes the City of Bedford and parts of the City of Lynchburg. The BOR basin includes eight watersheds, five of which contained impaired segments at the time the TMDL was developed.
The other three watersheds (North Otter Creek, Buffalo Creek, and Flat Creek watersheds) were considered in the TMDL study because they contribute flow and fecal coliform to the impaired segments. The Buffalo Creek subwatershed has since been listed as containing additional impairments.
Location of Big Otter Watershed
