Harvey Run West Branch Chester Creek Brandywine Creek Main Red Clay Below Chadds Ford Creek West Branch What is Your Watershed Address? What is Your Watershed Address? IA Naaman's Creek Red Clay AN We all live in a watershed. When it rains in a watershed, the runoff water flows downhill into a stream, lake or East Branch White Creek LV Clay Creek SY Below Avondale N 202 EN b Arden ocean. The watershed is the valley or area that drains into a particular water body. When standing on a hilltop, P 82 Ardentown Middle you may be standing on the ridge that separates two watersheds. While fishing along a stream you are at the Ardencroft Branch Red Clay Creek Southern End 495 White Clay Brandywine Creek h95 Zh Creek Y Z bottom of a watershed. In addition to a home address with street and town, we also live in a watershed address. T 41 Main Through N Wilmington Shellpot Creek West U A watershed can be large (e.g. the Inland Bays Watershed) or small (e.g. the watershed of a local stream). Branch O C White Clay Creek Bellefonte White Clay Little Mill Creek R Above Knowing what watershed you live in is important because how we use our land has a great influence on the E Christina River Creek T S 72 141 quality of our water resources. E H Elsmere Wilmington C White Clay Creek Main at Newark 2 4 9 896 13 Newport b 72 Lower Christina River h95 Newark Z 141 4 896 New Castle 2 Christina River 301 Smalleys Pond b 1 40 h95 896 b 9 Z Muddy Run Army Creek Big Elk Creek b13 b301 40 Red Lion Upper Elk River b 72 E D R N A A L W Dragon Creek Y A 1 Delaware City L E AR D 9 M 13 Indian River in Sussex County b Appoquinimink River in New Castle County Little River in Kent County C&D Canal East 896 Delaware Schools Delaware Estuary Piedmont Back Creek Y ^_ 896 Augustine Creek C&D Canal - Red Lion Creek T Early Childhood Brandywine Creek 1 N ^_ U 301 Special Education O b Appoquinimink River Christina River Appoquinimink River C ^_ L Intermediate I Odessa C ^_ Middletown Smyrna River E Elementary School Red Clay Creek NEW CASTLE COUNTY COUNTY CASTLE NEW 13 C 9 b ^_ Alternative/Charter West Branch Chester Creek Leipsic River Bohemia River ^_ 301 b Middle School 1 ^_ White Clay Creek St. Jones River Townsend Magnet Cedar Swamp ^_ High School Murderkill River Chesapeake Bay Sassafras River Blackbird Creek Elk River Mispillion River Smryna River Cypress Branch Broadkill River 13 Mill Creek b Choptank River Inland Bays 6 9 D Clayton E Duck Creek L Smyrna A Marshyhope Creek Cypress Branch W Rehoboth Bay ARE Nanticoke River Indian River Bay 6 B 42 300 Lepsic River A Y Gravelly Branch Leipsic Inland Bays Upper Leipsic River 42 Andover Branch Kenton Deep Creek Cheswold Assawoman Bay 1 300 Simons River Broad Creek Y T N 13 U Silver Lake b Pocomoke River O Hartly C 8 Little Creek S E 8 1 N Dover 113 9 N b A Little River 8 INSET MAP SHOWING TWO WATERSHEDS AND THE 2002 LAND USE N 13 E Issac Branch b 10 E Tappahanna U Wyoming Camden KENT COUNTY KENT Q 113 b NORTH REHOBOTH Tidbury Creek 1 RED MILL CREEK Woodside Magnolia BAY 10 St. Jones River Bowers Beach 13 D Upper Choptank E b R N A A Cow Marsh Viola 1 L Spring Creek W Murderkill River Y A Below Spring Creek Felton R L E A 12 D M Frederica 12 Swamp Creek Upper Murderkill White Marsh Branch b113 1 Lower Mispillion River Mispillion River Below Ponds Head of Marshyhope Browns Branch 14 Milford Harrington 36 Y Spring Branch Y T T Houston Slaughter N Beach N U U O O Cedar Creek Haven - Silver Lake C C Below Ponds 9 14 13 b b 30 E 1 N I Slaughter Creek L Farmington Watts Creek Prospect Branch O T 36 R N Upper Nanticoke E A Cedar Creek Above C 1 K Swiggetts Pond b113 24 16 Greenwood Y Ellendale Prime Hook Creek T 16 N Smithville Ditch 16 U Milton O Gum Branch C To learn more about Delaware's watersheds visit: 404 Lewes Round Pole Bridge 13 R Red Mill Creek b North E Houston Branch 30 Bridgeville Rehoboth Bay T Gravelly Branch S E Christina River Basin - www.wr.udel.edu/publicservice/chbasin.html X Wagamons Pond H E 9 C Henlopen S b 1 White Clay Watershed Association - http://mercury.ccil.org/~wcwa/ R South Acres S Lewes-Rehoboth O U Canal Rehoboth S D Red Clay Valley Association - www.redclayvalley.org/ Love Creek Beach Tanyard Branch Deep Creek 9 404 Georgetown 404 b Dewey Brandywine Valley Association - www.brandywinewatershed.org Beach Hearns Pond A Center for Inland Bays - www.inlandbays.org T D E Herring Creek N L A Seaford 24 DNREC Watershed Assessment Section - A L WAR Y 113 Cowbridge A b N www.dnrec.state.de.us/water2000/Sections/Watershed/DWRWatershed.htm R Millsboro Pond Skinners Run L A E 20 T M D Deep Creek-Fleetwood Pond DNREC Whole Basin Management - www.dnrec.delaware.gov/wholebasin Blades 30 I C Lower Nanticoke 0 2.5 5 10 O 20 24 Indian River to Bay Gales Creek 13 C b Millsboro Miles 1 Mirey Branch-Records Pond E Sources: Shoals Branch A Municipal Boundaries - Delaware Office of State Planning Coordination, February 2006. Bethel Laurel Whites Creek Y Y Roads and Railroads - DelDOT 2001. Created from the 1997 Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quads. N T Indian River Public Schools - Delaware Department of Education, February 2006. N Below Ponds Dagsboro 26 Ocean Millville Watershed Boundaries - Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, August 2004. U 24 View O 24 C 8 Bethany Beach Tussocky 26 Frankford Nanticoke Below Broad Creek O 24 Trap Pond South C Broad Creek 26 Bethany I X Below Ponds Vines-Pepper creek M 30 17 E O S Dirickson-Little S C 1 I U 13 James Branch S W b 54 113 26 b 54 Delmar 30 Selbyville 54 Upper Pocomoke River Fenwick DELAWARE 54 Island Mockingbird Creek MARYLAND Wicomico River Head Isle of Wight Bay Assawoman Bay Composed by: Nicole M. Minni, Water Resources Agency, University of Delaware.