What is a watershed?
Sunday, January 17th, 2010What is a watershed?
Today is a perfect day in Virginia Beach to discuss watersheds. It’s raining quite hard at times and one can observe the rain water flowing off of lawns and driveways into the street and down to the storm drains.
Where does it go?
Eventually it will end up in one our rivers and over time into one of our bays or sounds. This is a non-point pollution source because this water is totally untreated.
What is a watershed?
It’s the land that the water flows over or under to get to our rivers and bays.
In a particular watershed all the land drains to a particular body of water. In Virginia Beach there are five major watersheds. That is a large number for area the size of Virginia Beach.
People who live in the area should know their watershed address. Do you know what your address is?
Try to find out before my next post. More to Come
