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A watershed is a region of land and water that ultimately flows to a certain large body of water based on the geography of the land. Watersheds come in all different sizes and are sometimes called different names. Your local subwatershed joins other subwatersheds to flow into a larger watershed, and larger watersheds will flow into major watersheds, sometimes called basins. Pennsylvania has six major watersheds or basins – Erie, Ohio, Potomac, Susquehanna, Genesee, and Delaware. Your local watershed is also part of the water and land that make up these major watersheds and water that you see near your home will eventually reach the large body of water into which the major watershed drains.
Everyone lives in a watershed, and every landowner has a responsibility to ensure the water that runs off or filters through their property and community flows as slowly as possible and enters local waterways as clean as possible.
Watershed Winds – Meagan Hopkins-Doerr Large, complex problems aren’t solved by individuals, but collective individual actions can make a difference. It is thus exciting that over four hundred Pennsylvanians have committed to making watershed-friendly decisions Read more…
Nurture Nature Center was recently awarded a new grant that supports programs and education about the local environment. In April 2022, NNC received a 2022-2023 Environmental Education Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Read more…
Nurture Nature Center and Penn State Extension are honored to receive the 2022 Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence through the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the Watershed-Friendly Property Program (established through a grant from Read more…
Designed as shallow depressions, rain gardens filter out pollutants such as fertilizers, oil, grease, sediment, and pesticides while recharging groundwater reserves.
The roof of a 1,000-square-foot house can collect around 600 gallons per one inch of rain—that’s enough free water to fill more than 15 bathtubs!
Taking good care of a stream means taking good care of the land around it. Vegetated buffers provide many benefits including flood and erosion control, cool and clean water, clean air, and wildlife habitat.
