Mission Statement

To maintain the quality of the natural resources and to enhance and preserve the character of the area in the best interests of it's residents, the property owners and the public.

DITCHLEY VIRGINIA

The Dividing Creek Association

The Dividing Creek Association was founded in October 1990 as a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the environment, to maintain the quality of the natural resources and to enhance and preserve the character of the area in the best interests of it's residents, the property owners and the public.

The association currently consists of approximately 150 registered families, represented by a fourteen-member board of directors.  The directors serve staggered three-year terms with two or three new directors elected annually.  Anyone interested in serving on the Board of Directors in any capacity is encouraged to contact one of your directors for further information.  There are two directors, scheduled to retire this fall.  The board is encouraging  an increase in the number of directors to ensure adequate representation of our members. The board is regularly scheduled to meet twice annually, once in March and again in November.  Additional meetings are called for, as required.

The Dividing Creek Association
supports the
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Hughlett Point Natural Area Preserve
 

The Hughlett Point area, is what brought the Dividing Creek Association into being.  Through the efforts of the Dividing Creek Association, the Audubon Society and the Virginia Department of Conservation, the development of a marina/resort complex on Hughlett Point was averted. Through these efforts the Hughlett Point Preserve was established and brought into the                       
Department of Conservation and Recreation's,
 Natural Area Preserves Program. 

                             The Marsh at Hughlett Point                  

The property is now under the care of the Department of Conservation and Recreation and a group of volunteers, many of whom are association members, calling themselves, "Friends of the Preserve". This group regularly works in the capacity of Monitors and Guides at the preserve.       Welcome Center Hughlett Point

Ran Marshall presenting the annual DCA Donation
 to
 Rebecca Wilson, DCR Natural Heritage Steward

The association is vitally interested in supporting the Hughlett Point Preserve and other areas in the Dividing Creek watershed.  Five dollars of each Dividing Creek Association's members dues, or approximately $750.00 is donated to the Hughlett Point Foundation annually. Dividing Creek Association Members are encouraged to participate in the support of and the activities at the Hughlett Point Preserve.

DCA Members Sib and Jane Towner are the coordinators for Friends of the Preserve and can be contacted at 435-3566 for additional information.

DCR Regulated Duck Blind on the Hughlett Point Preserve

DIVIDING CREEK AREA HIGHLIGHTS

Dividing Creek

Dividing Creek from Day Mark #7

Hughlett Point from Day Mark #7

North Shore Dividing Creek Day Mark #10

Ditchley Point, South Shore Dividing Creek

North Shore Dividing Creek

Harding's Wharf, North Shore, Dividing Creek

South Shore
Harvey's, Natty Cove Area

Abilini's Computer Services
Rob Adams

South Shore
 Natty Point Area

Entering Lawrence Cove

Southern Comfort on Lawrence Cove

Work Boat on Lawrence Cove

Prentice Creek

Wes Worsham's Tower on Kent Point
Prentice Creek Day Mark #2
and
Ditchley
 

Wes Worsham's Home Tower and Boat House
on
Kent Point

Ditchley Park

Ditchley Point, North Shore, Prentice Creek

South Shore, Prentice Creek
Hurricane Ernesto Casualty

Mike Egerer's
Home of the Annual Oyster Roast

Ryland Gaskins Work Boat,
 Dock and Home

Pete Merrick's Home
and
TowBoat US Operation on Prentice Creek

Head of Prentice Creek
Prentice Point

Jarvis Creek

Jarvis Creek Entrance Day Mark # 2

Kent Point
North Shore of Jarvis Creek

Entering Jarvis Creek

Old Kelley Fish House and Work Boats

Head of Jarvis Creek

 Jarvis Creek Day Mark #6

Jimmy Kelley's old fish house and dock

Outbound Jarvis Creek

Kent Point
outbound from
Jarvis Creek

Jarvis Point
from
Jarvis Creek

Jarvis Point

Dividing Creek, Prentice Creek
and
Jarvis Creek
Water Quality Monitoring

The Dividing Creek Association has just recently established a Water Quality Monitoring Group of 22 members who will, with the help of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ), begin monitoring our local creeks to determine the quality of our waters and what can be done to improve them. Three members of the association have recently done test monitoring of Water pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen and temperature using test kits supplied by VADEQ for this purpose. The samples taken by this group were forwarded to VADEQ for analysis and evaluation. With the results of these tests the association plans to advise and help additional monitors do further testing in an effort to assist residents of the area return to our waters to their pristine state of years gone by. Anyone interested in joining this group should contact association president Richard Hinch at 435-7484.

Dividing Creek Area
Wireless
High Speed Broad Band
Internet
and
Telephone Communications

The Dividing Creek Association has worked with two local Broad Band Communications providers Kaballero Communications (kaballero.com) and Northern Neck Internet Communications (nnwifi.com) to provide Wireless High Speed Internet and Voice over IP (VoIP) Telephone Service to the Dividing Creek Community.

Kaballero.com's
Hughlett Point
Wireless High Speed Internet
Antenna
 

Kaballero Communications has installed the above access antenna on Hughlett Point. This antenna is now providing Wireless High Speed Internet Service to all of the lower end of Dividing Creek, Ditchley, Kent and Jarvis Points, and much of Prentice and Jarvis Creeks.

Northern Neck WiFi has installed a wireless broad band access antenna on Waddeys Lane at Luther Welches farm on top of a Silo. This antenna is providing Wireless High Speed Internet Service to the Dividing Creek Area as far down the creek as Lawrence Cove.

New Northern Neck WiFi Antenna
at
241 Etta Lane
on
Prentice Creek

The above Northern Neck WiFi Antenna has just been installed at Pete Merrick's home at 241 Etta Lane on the North side of Prentice Creek. Northern Neck Internet Communication's latest antenna is now operational. With this latest antenna all of Prentice Creek, Jarvis Creek, the lower end of Dividing Creek, Ditchley, Kent and Jarvis Points now has Wireless High Speed Internet capability.