The Delaware Estuary the Next Page Is a Different Color

Each WATERSHED on The Delaware Estuary the next page is a different color. See if you can locate the watershed that YOU live in!

Morrisville Trenton Q. What exactly is the DELAWARE ESTUARY? Schuy lkil Norristown A. The Delaware Estuary includes l parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, stretching approximately PA Philadelphia 133 miles from the falls of the Camden Delaware River near Trenton, NJ r ive to the mouth of the Delaware Bay R e between Cape May, NJ and r Wilmington a Cape Henlopen, DE. w a l e Estuaries are bodies of water where D NJ salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water flowing off the land. They are very important feeding grounds, habitats (homes), and nurseries Q. What’s a WATERSHED? for fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and tons of other creatures. Delaware Bay ATLANTIC A. The WATERSHED of a stream is all of The wetlands in the Estuary clean out OCEAN the land that sheds water into that stream many pollutants from the water and Dover when it rains. When rain falls on land, help protect us from floods. it drains or runs off to the nearest stream Cape May or river that is downhill.

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AV Broad Street in South Philly, My Watershed Address is: E. I-95 Center City, or North Philly, or in Port Richmond or Kensington, you live in one of the WARE DELAWARE RIVER UNDERGROUND ELA RI D VER page 8 TRIBUTARIES’ WATERSHEDS