What You Can Do for RVS Watersheds
How You Can Help Protect the Watershed:
- Make your voice heard. Support local land use plans that allow for compatible growth and that protect ground water and wetlands.
- Reduce the use of fertilizer and pesticides on your lawn.
- Use Best Management Practices (BMPs) on agricultural and timer land.
- Plant trees and shrubs along stream banks to reduce erosion and absorb nutrients and sediment runoff.
- Make sure your home septic system is routinely cleaned.
- Recycle paper, newspaper, glass, tin aluminum, cardboard, plastics, used motor oil and safely dispose of toxic materials.
- Install effective anti-siltation devices to keep exposed soil from washing into streams during construction. Plant grass as soon as possible to prevent soil erosion.
- Use phosphate-free detergents.
Ridge and Valley Watersheds