Let’s Learn About Wilmington’s Waterways! Q. What’s a WATERSHED? The Brandywine Creek’s Watersheds Our drinking water comes from the If you live in the The WATERSHED of a stream is all of the BRANDYWINE CREEK. Honey Brookrook A. YELLOW AREA, land that sheds water into that stream when it This yellow area represents all of the then you live in the Brandywine Creek’s Watersheds. ExExton rains. When rain falls on land, it drains or runs BRANDYWINE CREEK DowniDowningtown off to the nearest stream or river that is downhill. Concord Pike Coatesvilleoatesville WATERSHED. Rockwood Rd Parkesburg West Chester 495 3 Philadelphia S Haines Avenue Milton Dr Shipley Street H Hillcrest Avenue Marsh Road 202 E Walton L E. Matson Run Pkwy L W. Matson Run Pkwy Philadelphia Pike Camden P 13 W. Park Drive O EK Hawthorne T RE 95 Whittier Pennsylvania C Irving Byron Rd R Coleridge Rd Lea Blvd E V 39th St Lea Blvd I Ruskin WILMINGTON Channing R 38th St Marlowe Edgemoor Road Gov. Printz Blvd E 37th St 13 R A Concord Pike Market Street W 41st St A New Jersey L Miller Rd 40th St 42nd St43rd Street Maryland E Monroe St D Madison St Jefferson St Franklin Place 36th St N Washington Street Powder Mill Road 13 35th St West St Lea Blvd 34th St Tatnall St Shipley St W E 32nd St Pine Street 202 Gov. Printz Blvd 33rd St Delaware Franklin St 31st St 35th St Broom Street 30th St S 202 Eastlawn Ave 13 Harrison Street 29th St Todds Lane 25th St Van Buren Street28th St 95 Blvd 24th St Monroe Street 32nd St 31st St 23rd St Concord Ave West St Downing35th Dr St 27th St 30th StreetHeald St Brandywine Bancroft Mill Rd Washington Street Tatnall St 22nd St 29th St Gov.Claymont Printz 495 Falls Road Hill Rd 26th St How Can You and Your Family Madison St 28th St Todds Lane Broom Street21st St McCabe Jefferson St25th St 13 Barley Mill Road Market27th Street St Bellevue Power Franklin20th St St 29th St Wood Rd 24th St 19th St Edgemoor Wood Rd 26th St 22nd St 23rd St Church St Dr Ave Riddle 18th St Speakman Pl 18th St 21st St Protect Our Water? Rd Rockford Kent Pkwy 1 Stadium Dr mere Red Oak Rd 20th St Lovering Avenue B Street Washington R 19th St Heald Street Tower RoadTower Willard St 22nd Tower Rd A 13 RailcarAvenue N Thatcher Street Rosemont St S Delaware Ave Woodlawn Ave N. Park2 Dr D 18th St Gov. Printz Blvd Bowers Street H Bancroft Pkwy Lamotte Street Y Carter Street Claymont Street Vandever Ave W Jessup Street E 19th St Grant Ave S. Park Dr Pine Street 22nd St L IN 17th St Spruce St L Union St 202 Church St P 18th St E Vandever AvenueLocust St O Lincoln St C T Scott St R C Hey Kids! Protecting our drinking water isn’t just an adult thing. It’s up to each and Shallcross S. Park DrE Race St REE 17th St DelawareDuPont Avenue St E K Kennett Pike Rd Oak Red K Glen Ave 17th St Gilpin Ave 16th St Vandever Ave every one of us! Storm drains in the street (also called sewer inlets) are for water only. Rising Sun Lane 16th St Rodney St 16th St 16th St Tower Road Tower S. Park Dr 15th St 14th St 15th St Mt. SalemMt. Lane 3 Greenhill Ave Greenhill 14th St Rain and melting snow pick up all kinds of pollutants such as leaked motor oil, animal waste, St Lincoln 14th St Harrison St 14th St Riverview Ave Riverview Pennsylvania Avenue Van Buren St 13 13 13th St Marsh Bancroft Pkwy Bancroft Hay Road Union Street Union 13th St 13th St Bowers 13th RailcarAvenue and trash as they wash over our sidewalks, streets, and yards. All of this dirty water flows Gov. Printz Blvd 52 Pennsylvania Ave Delaware Avenue 100 12th St 13 Heald St 12th St Grant Avenue Grant 12th St into storm drains, many of which empty into local creeks and into the Delaware River. Railroad Ave 12th St If you live in the N. DuPont Road 11th St 11th St 52 11th St 202 BRANDYW French Street French , Wilson Street Wilson PURPLE AREA You can help make our waterways safer for drinking, fishing, and boating by keeping 10th St 10th St I Hay Road 2 10th St Plant N Bancroft Pkwy Bancroft 95 Walk Brown Clifford Rosemont then you live in the pollution and trash out of storm drains. 9th St 9th St E 8th St C West St West Woodlawn Ave Woodlawn Blackshire Rd Blackshire SHELLPOT CREEK R 8th St 8th St Wilmington R Nottingham Rd Nottingham Indus. Park E E 7th St 7th St 7th St Street Kirkwood 7th St . E 7th St E WATERSHED K 6th St K 6th St St Clayton Scott St Scott DuPont St DuPont 6th St Did you know a long time ago people built their 5th St 5th St 5th St Street Church Spruce Street Spruce Walnut Street Walnut Pine Street Pine King Street King Lombard Street Lombard Market Street Market Jackson Street Jackson Shipley Street Shipley Adams Street Adams Broom Street Broom Monroe Street Monroe Orange Street Orange Van Buren Street Buren Van Franklin Street Franklin Harrison Street Harrison Rodney Street Rodney Madison Street Madison Washington Street Washington Ferris St Ferris Jefferson Street Jefferson outhouses on stilts directly over waterways, and 4th St Pkwy Bancroft 13 4th St Swedes Landing Rd Hawley St Hawley 4th St or streams and 4th St Ogle Ave Ogle 3rd St Bayard Avenue Bayard 3rd St 3rd St factories were allowed to dump their waste directly 13 Cleveland Ave Cleveland 13 Did you know that the water you drink and bathe in Ave Greenhill Conrad St Brandywine Creek RIVER DELAWARE 2nd St 2nd St 2nd St DockCommerce St St Lincoln Street Lincoln into local creeks? Now that is against the law, Street Webb Union Street Union Connell St Connell Woodlawn Ave Woodlawn comes from the Rodman Pleasant St 9 Lancaster Pike 48 Lancaster Avenue Lancaster Avenue 48 Martin Luther King Blvd St Poplar Front St and the creeks are much cleaner. Tulip Street Read St 495 reservoirs that flow into the Creek? In some towns Pkwy Bancroft Chestnut Street 4 13 4 W 5 people also get their tap water from water trapped Elm Street I Elm St L M I N Lobdell St River Faulkland Road Linden Street Linden St underground which is called the groundwater table. 2 G Sycamore St Sycamore 9A T Porter St Porter Maple Street 202 O N A Street Christiana Ave Sycamore St R 34 I V Bradford Geddes St Geddes E Beech Street St Rodney 95 L. Beech St Claymont R B Street Market St Market Heald Street Heald W Fun Places to Visit: St Townsend VER Creek Barry St L. Oak St A A RI L 13 IN Walnut St C St BRANDYWINE Oak Street K C RIST S. DuPont Road Maryland Avenue H 1 Stroud St Beech St C St PARK Madison Street Gist Road Hausel Road Berth Road R Kirkwood Hwy Cedar St R Market St 2 Prospect Rd D St E E Christiana Ave BRANDYWINE Cedar St 6 Lakeview Rd Banning St Buttonwood St 9 9 V 2 Seneca Rd V I ZOO Delmarva I Goodman St 5th Ave R R New York Ave 6th Ave Street Church URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL100 Claymont A 3 7th Ave A Garaches Ln CENTER Walnut St Anchorage St N Groundwater Table N I I Ferry Road WILMINGTON YOUTH Garaches Lane 9A T Lane T 4 8th AveDuncan St New Castle Ave S ROWING ASSOCIATION 4 S James Ct W I 9th Ave Madison St I 9A Brown St I L R TUBMAN-GARRETT M R I H 5 N H Market Street RIVERFRONT PARK Coleman St G C 2 T C 13 High Speed Way O FRAWLEY N Did you know that litter from the streets washes into R 6 IV STADIUM E R Did you know that when it rains pet waste washes storm drains when it rains and ends up in the river? 202 W RUSSELL W. PETERSON 7 A off our yards, sidewalks, and streets into 100 LK Be sure to put trash in trash cans, not in the street! 7 URBAN WILDLIFE REFUGE Maryland Avenue 95 13 If you live in the storm drains, ending up in the river? PARKS Heald Street 495 Clean up after your pets! Kirkwood Highway 9 ORANGE AREA, then you live in the My Home Address is: CHRISTINA RIVER WATERSHED. City of Wilmington Partnership for the Delaware Estuary My Watershed Address is: Louis L. Redding City/County Building One Riverwalk Plaza 800 French Street 110 S. Poplar Street, Suite 202 Wilmington, DE 19801-3537 Wilmington, DE 19801 (302) 576-2489 (800) 445-4935 www.WilmingtonDE.gov www.DelawareEstuary.org The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary leads collaborative and creative efforts to protect and enhance the Delaware Estuary and its tributaries for current and future generations. © 2009 Designed and Illustrated by Frank McShane. Printed on Recycled Paper.