Down the drain
A Series by Team Cached Out
What is a Watershed?
Watersheds are an integral to the survival of our environment. A watershed is an area of land on which any water within it drains to a common point. That common point may be a lake, the outlet of a river, or any point within a river system. Just as when you pour water in a bathtub,it all ends up in the drain, when it rains on land, rainwater flows over land, farms, forests, and residential lawns to a particular body of water. Water can flow both above the ground through lakes, streams, and wetlands, or below the ground through groundwater and springs.
Do you live in a watershed? Of course you do… we all do!
When we think of water pollution we often think of the pollution caused by business and industry, but that is not the whole story. Runoff from residential neighborhoods, cities, and farms contribute to water pollution. Storm drains and roadside ditches lead to our lakes and streams. So, any oil, pet waste, leaves, fertilizers or, dirty water from washing your car or other outside activities that enters a storm drain gets into our lakes and streams. We all have a big impact on stream and river quality within our watersheds.
We placed this series as a team and recommend caching this as a team. It is faster and safer to have one person drive and have another to jump out to retrieve the cache.
Please take care when parking Roadside.
Bring your engraving tool as one is not provided.
You must sign the log in order to claim the find.
If you don't feel comfortable with Roadside P&G's by all means DON'T DO THEM!
Please practice Cache In Trash Out when visiting our caches.