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What is a Watershed?
A watershed consists of all the land and waterways that drain into the same body of water. Understanding how water travels across the ground surface or other intercepting feature (tree, house, parking lot) and reaches a storm drain or stream is a critical component of watershed management.
Water flows on a downward path to its eventual river and lake destination before it again moves into different phases of the hydrologic, or circulation, cycle. The surface waters within Oakland County drain into 5 major watersheds:
(A very small portion of the Belle River watershed touches the northern County boundary.)
Each of these watersheds covers multiple municipal and governmental boundaries, including drains/systems under the jurisdiction of the Oakland County Drain Commissioner. Other jurisdictions in the area include the counties of Wayne, Macomb, Genesee and Livingston.
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