Keeping Your Watershed Beautiful

We in the Bay Area are very fortunate to live in an area surrounded by San Francisco Bay, many creeks, and vast open space.  Your yard is part of the watershed for local creeks and, ultimately, the entire Bay.  Creeks receive runoff from our neighborhoods through a system of storm drains or through rain filtration and runoff of permeable surfaces.  All of the water that runs down our street and into the storm drains flows into our local creeks and eventually to the San Francisco bay and Pacific Ocean untreated.

Your yard is part of the watershed for the local creek and, ultimately, the entire Bay.  Creeks receive runoff from our neighborhoods through a system of storm drains or through rain filtration and runoff of permeable surfaces.  .  All of the water that runs down our street and into the storm drain, flows into our local creeks and eventually to the Bay untreated.

(from Majewski and Capel, 1995)

Pesticide movement in the hydrologic cycle

By selecting plants that are on this CD, you are making taking the first step to creating a beautiful and healthy ecosystem in your own yard.  Please keep the following in mind when designing your yard and/or garden:

For More information on gardening and water quality visit the following sites:

San Mateo County Clean Water Program:
http://www.flowstobay.org/

Alameda County Clean Water Program:  

http://cleanwaterprogram.org/indexFlash.htm

Santa Clara Recycling and Waste Reduction:

http://www.reducewaste.org/portal/site/iwm/