The EPA’s Watershed Central website provides a variety of tools and information to aide watershed management.
Credit: EPA

The basic idea behind the EPA’s new Watershed Central website is to assist us develop and implement effective watershed management programs. The site includes guidance, tools, case studies, and data sets to help share information, analyze data, and identify opportunities to initiate or strengthen our watershed efforts.

On the site, you can look at any body of water across the country and see some interesting facts that everyday citizens probably aren’t familiar with: pulling up S.C. data shows that
61% of impaired coastal S.C. water is because of fecal coliform

Checking to see whether or not Shem Creek has fecal coliform shows:
Waterbody Name: SHEM CK AT BRDG ON US 17.

So from the Watershed Central website, now I’ve learned something I really would rather have not known – thanks EPA!

Last week, somebody asked if dolphins swim in Shem Creek – besides the high diesel content, now they have fecal matter to worry about too!

UPDATE: Shem Creek is clean according to the EPA.