Exploring your community through water.
Exploring your community through water.
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    • Home
    • What Are Watersheds?
    • Our Impact
      • Completed Watershed Plans
      • Water Quality Data
      • Projects
    • Take Action
      • Watershed Education
      • Best Management Practices
      • Resources
    • About Us
  • Home
  • What Are Watersheds?
  • Our Impact
    • Completed Watershed Plans
    • Water Quality Data
    • Projects
  • Take Action
    • Watershed Education
    • Best Management Practices
    • Resources
  • About Us

Welcome to DeKalb County Watersheds

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About Us

Who We Are

What We Offer

What We Offer

 DeKalb County Watersheds works to protect local water quality, soil health, and natural resources through science-based planning and community action.

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What We Offer

What We Offer

What We Offer

 Find watershed maps, local plans, BMP guides, project updates, and educational resources to help you reduce runoff and protect our streams.

Completed Watershed Plans

How We're Run

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How We're Run

 This initiative is led by the DeKalb County Watershed Council and managed through the DeKalb County Soil & Water Conservation District.

Watershed Council

"Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land."

Luna Leopold - U.S. Hydrologist

What are Watersheds?

 A watershed is the land area that drains rain and snow into a shared outlet: like a creek, river, or wetland. Everything that happens on the land within a watershed affects the water downstream.

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Interactive Watershed Maps

Do you know which watershed you live in? Find out today!

Use our interactive map to find your watershed.


Simply enter your address, then click within the highlighted outline to explore your local watershed area. You can also add or remove map layers to view floodplain boundaries, wetland areas, and other important watershed features.

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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals. Your generous donation will fund our mission of healthy watersheds in DeKalb County.

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