As children our street address is forever engrained in our minds and we still remember it when we move away from home. We grow up writing our address on EVERYTHNG- envelopes, school forms, job applications, medical forms, bills, etc. But there is a little known secondary address most people do not know and that is their watershed address. Click here to find out what your watershed address is.
A watershed is an area of land that drains all the water to one common body of water such as a stream, river, lake, or ocean. Watersheds are defined by topography, or the lands' hills and ridges.
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| Illustration courtesy of www.miseagrant.umich.edu |
No matter where you are, you are in a watershed!
The Delaware Nature Society surveyed walkers on the Christina Riverwalk about their knowledge of a watershed in the video, Does your water shed?.
