Letter: DeKalb County's watershed focus of community partnership
When rain falls on a parking lot, a street, or farm field it flows down and is drained (or is 'shed') into a tile. From there the water eventually ...
October 5, 2023
2:46 AM
When rain falls on a parking lot, a street, or farm field it flows down and is drained (or is 'shed') into a tile. From there the water eventually is shed into a river or creek. The drained area is called a Watershed. Everyone lives within a Watershed. Almost all of DeKalb County rain water is shed into either the Kishwaukee River, Rock River or the Mississippi River Watershed, or the Fox River, Illinois River and Mississippi River Watershed and eventually drains into the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans.