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Table 19.9--Overall watershed characterization in Southern States using Unified Watershed Assessment criteria

State	Total number of watersheds	Very high quality	Meeting standards	Other restoration needed	Highest restoration priority	Insufficient data
	--Number of watersheds (acres)--	---------- Number of watersheds (percent of acres) -----------
Alabama	53 (33,090,082)	0 (0)	34 (59.21)	2 (0.33)	12 (30.58)	5 (9.88)
Arkansas	59 (33,924,530)	0 (0)	20 (42.76)	22 (31.69)	13 (23.76)	4 (1.78)
Florida	54 (35,401,487)	0 (0)	35 (51.02)	7 (15.11)	12 (33.87)	0 (0)
Georgia	53 (37,512,562)	0 (0)	27 (44.69)	4 (4.43)	22 (50.88)	0 (0)
Kentucky	47 (25,747,680)	0 (0)	6 (12.61)	20 (32.60)	13 (31.72)	8 (23.07)
Louisiana	58 (29,554,483)	0 (0)	0 (0)	27 (46.70)	21 (47.77)	10 (5.54)
Mississippi	56 (30,461,735)	1 (2.72)	14 (19.92)	11 (6.27)	9 (26.57)	21 (44.51)
North Carolina	57 (31,387,170)	1 (1.29)	15 (29.80)	27 (45.73)	14 (23.18)	0 (0)
Oklahoma	70 (44,743,486)	0 (0)	9 (7.47)	48 (77.49)	9 (8.30)	4 (6.74)
South Carolina	36 (19,759,604)	0 (0)	7 (13.43)	21 (60.55)	8 (26.02)	0 (0)
Tennessee	62 (26,992,715)	0 (0)	11 (28.92)	34 (51.91)	17 (19.17)	0 (0)
Texas	206 (168,984,378)	0 (0)	58 (31.05)	76 (33.30)	26 (12.91)	46 (22.74)
Virginia	54 (25,615,321)	0 (0)	6 (14.82)	23 (39.08)	24 (46.11)	1 (0)

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1998b