WHAT IS A WATERSHED
No matter where you live or play, you're in a watershed! So what is it?
A watershed is an area of land where all the water (surface and groundwater) flows to the lowest point - usually a stream, lake or river.
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
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
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