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Imagine you are a drop of stormwater runoff flowing off the road to….wait! What!? Stormwater runoff, what is that?
Stormwater runoff is precipitation, rain, snow, ice, that does not soak into the ground or get taken up by plants or evaporate but instead runs off. Stormwater runoff also includes the precipitation that falls onto impervious surfaces such as parking lots, roads, sidewalks, buildings, etc.
Ok, back to imagining you are a drop of stormwater runoff, while you are flowing over the grass, roads, parking lots you are picking up fertilizers, pesticides, trash, oils, metals and anything else that is on these surfaces. You will be carrying these to a waterway untreated. The stormwater runoff that flows from the drive and parking lot where you are located will eventually flow to White Lick Creek, but not before it flows through pipes and open waterways such as ditches, swales, ravines, etc. So, go with the flow to find out where stormwater runoff from here will flow.