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Community
Watersheds: Educating Watershed Constituents
This material
is meant to provide technical guidance and help generate project and training
ideas for small 
watershed
organizations interested in educating local stakeholders on the impacts
of watershed-related behaviors. Feel free to use or adapt this material
for your group's particular needs (although we do ask that you credit CWP).
Targeting Homeowners: This material was developed for the South River Federation under a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. To help strengthen the organization's education program, we developed a series of Homeowner Association slideshows on suburban impacts to water resources, encouraged the local paper to publish related newspaper articles, and initiated demonstration projects to educate watershed residents on voluntary "back yard" practices to minimize residential impacts.
Homeowner's
Association Survey (.pdf):
designed to gauge level of interest in backyard practicesAdditional Resources
Watershed education is an important tool for protecting and restoring both
urban and rural watersheds. The primary goals of watershed education include
increasing community awareness, preserving local water resources, and gradually
changing resident behaviors to reduce the amount of pollutants from stormwater
runoff. Education programs may focus outreach on a single behavior on a broad
basis, or concentrate their efforts at the subwatershed level. The most effective
watershed education programs focus on key pollutants or behaviors, carefully
target their audiences, and survey residents to understand their attitudes
before designing education campaigns.
Individual Fact Sheets
can be found at http://www.stormwatercenter.net
in the "Fact Sheets" section.
Where
You Can Get More Help
Here
are some other websites we've found helpful.