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Broadkill-Smyrna Watershed
Delaware
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Surf Your Watershed is a service to help you locate, use, and
share environmental information about your state and watershed.
Description of Watershed
| The Broadkill-Smyrna Watershed is located in Eastern Kent and Sussex
counties Delaware. The land uses in this watershed consist of cropland, irrigated cropland,
forestland, wetlands, and urban land. The watershed is in the coastal plain and
the topography is generally flat The soils in the watershed are in the
Sassafras-Rumford-Fallsington, Eansville-Fallsington, and
Westbrook-Ipswich-Elkton general soil series.
There are about 326 farms in the watershed. The average farm size is
approximately 250 acres. Primary crops include corn, soybeans, wheat, barley,
and vegetables
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Land Cover/Use
| Land Use |
Acres |
| Cropland |
84,000 |
| Forest |
35,000 |
| Developed |
10,000 |
| Wetland/Water |
18,000 |
| Other |
1,500 |
| Total |
149,000 |
Map of Broadkill-Smyrna Watershed
For General and Application Information,
visit the NRCS CSP home page.
Counties in the Broadkill-Smyrna Watershed
• New Castle County
• Kent County
On-Line Self Assessment - Link - Complete a 2005 Conservation Security Program Self Assessment
- Coming Soon!
These documents require
Adobe Acrobat
 Cost list
for Broadkill-Smyrna Watershed (342 KB)
Broadkill-Smyra Watershed Fact Sheet (136 KB)
Key Points of Conservation Security Program (64 KB)
Program Contacts - Delaware
Paul Petrichenko, Assistant State Conservationist for Programs
Phone: 302-678-4180
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