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Title: Polluted Runoff and Watersheds


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Polluted Runoffand Watersheds
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What is Polluted Runoff?
  • Polluted Runoff is a cause of water pollution
  • Its what happens when rain flows over the ground
    and picks up lots of dirt
  • This dirty water then runs into our lakes and
    streams and even our drinking water

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Watersheds
  • A watershed is the area of land that collects
    rain water which will drain into our lakes,
    rivers, and ground water.
  • A watershed could include combinations of land as
    different as forests, glaciers, deserts and/or
    grasslands.
  • Wherever you stand on the ground, you are in a
    watershed

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Your Watershed
We insert a GIS map of all of the surrounding
watersheds of the school being presented to, and
have a flag inserted at the schools location.
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What are some of the causes of polluted runoff?
  • Driving a car
  • Pouring ANYTHING down the storm sewer
  • Washing a car with lots of soap in your driveway
  • Not cleaning up after your pet
  • Throwing trash on the ground

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Who does it affect?
  • YOU!!

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How does it affect you?
  • Polluted Runoff is the main reason that many of
    our rivers, lakes, and streams are not clean
    enough to fish or swim in!
  • We all need to be able to use clean water for so
    many things that we do everyday like drinking,
    cooking, bathing, washing, and even playing.

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What can you do?
  • Dont waste water
  • Encourage your parents to be responsible with
    fertilizers-
  • Dont pour ANYTHING down your storm sewers

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What can you do?
  • Dont throw trash on the ground
  • Recycle
  • Pick up trash that you see on the ground
  • Learn more about your watershed!

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Because we do not want this to be our future.
  • This presentation was created by AmeriCorps
    VISTAs Marissa Pappas and Eva Murphy
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