How does your lawn impact Water Quality in your watershed?
How does your lawn impact Water Quality in your watershed?
Can you identify all the impacts?
Fertilizer (Nutrient) or pesticide applied on street/driveway flushing to catch basin; grass clippings and leaves (Nutrients) discarded in catch basin; overwatering lawn, causing fertilizer, sediment, pet waste and motor oil to reach the catch basin. All discharging to the watershed.
EPA’s Safer Choices interactive map:
https://www.epa.gov/saferchoice/find-safer-choices-use-your-community
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Contact
Jennifer Zunino-Smith
Environmental Resource Educator
jmz75@cornell.edu
(845) 429-7085 x125
Last updated August 26, 2021
Useful Links
- EPA How’s my Waterway?:
- EPA Learn about Water:
- EPA KIDS!
- EPA Drinking Water interactive map
- EPA’s Safer Choices interactive map
- EPA GreenInfrastructure Toolkit
- EPAEnviroFacts
- EPAEnviroMapper
- EPAMy Environment
- EPAEnviro Atlas
- EPA Echo Tool Guide
- ECHO Facility Search
- Data NY
- HudsonValley Natural Resource Mapper
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National
Estuaries Program Map
- StreamStats App from USGS
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