What is a Watershed?
A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that is under it or
drains off of it goes into the same place. John Wesley Powell, scientist
geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is:
"that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living
things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as
humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community."
Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross county, state, and
national boundaries. In the continental US, there are 2,110 watersheds;
including Hawaii Alaska, and Puerto Rico, there are 2,267 watersheds.
This description of a watershed was taken from the US EPA “What is a Watershed”
website:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/whatis.html
YOUR WATERSHED
We refer to watersheds by their proper name as well as by a grouping of
numbers. This set of numbers is called the watershed's Hydrologic Unit Code
(HUC) also known as the watershed address. The HUC can range from 2 to 16
digits long - more numbers means it’s the address of a smaller watershed.
There are two different watersheds
within the Palouse Conservation District:
HUC: 17060107- Lower Snake-Tucannon
Rivers and streams that make up the Lower Snake-Tucannon Watershed:
Wawawai Creek
Steptoe Creek
Link to more information about this watershed:
http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=17060107
HUC: 17060108-Palouse
Rivers and stream that make up the Palouse Watershed:
Main Stem Palouse River (Union Flat Creek Subwatershed)
Dry Creek
Thorn Creek
South Fork Palouse River
Missouri Flat Creek
Paradise Creek
Fourmile Creek
Sunshine Creek
North Fork Palouse River
Silver Creek
Clear Creek
Duffield Creek
Cedar Creek
Link to
more information about this watershed:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/tmdl/palouse/index.html
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