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Where’s My Creek encourages residents to learn about their local watershed and individuals can do to improve it. We have created an easy to read information sheet for every sub-watershed in Athens-Clarke County. To identify your local creek, download this detailed map<\/a>. Then go to the Where’s My Creek<\/a> page to download the appropriate information sheet.<\/p>\n If you see us at a festival or event, stop by and we will give you a free refrigerator magnet to remind you of your creek and to encourage taking responsibility for its health. Water is precious; let’s not allow ignorance to destroy this vital resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EDUCATION Resources from UOWN What is a Watershed? A watershed is an area of land from which water, sediment, and dissolved materials drain to a common point along a stream, wetland, lake or river. Where’s My Creek Did you know that Athens-Clarke County contains 17 sub-watersheds? Or that there are … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/uown.org\/UOWN-Wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/McNuttCoasterNew.png\")
Did you know that Athens-Clarke County contains 17<\/strong> sub-watersheds? Or that there are two rivers and 15 creeks within county borders? Do you know the name of the creek in your neighborhood?<\/p>\n