Sunday, September 22, 2013

Watersheds

Discuss the following information:
Define
What watershed do you live in? What is your watershed address?
What are the benefits of watershed?
What are some of the problems caused by people that affect the watershed.

A watershed is an area of land where water drains from high altitudes into a single body such as a lake and flows to a larger body of water like an ocean.
- The watershed we live closest to is the Elm Fork of the Trinity River.
-The specific address or HUC is 12030103
-Benefits of Watersheds are they are great spots for recreation, agriculture and water consumption.
-Some problems are pollution, zebra mussels, trash, and algae blooms from fertilizer run-off.

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