Explore the Leading Creek Watershed!

Tucked away in a corner of southeastern Ohio, the Leading Creek Watershed is full of hidden wonders. Home to the Meigs SWCD Conservation Area, Skatopia, Wisteria, farms, a water trail, and a number of mom-and-pop businesses, the 150 sq mile area is a diversely woven landscape of rolling hills and rich history. 


What's a watershed? 
 
The Leading Creek Watershed is located in western Meigs County and portions of Athens County and Gallia County. Learn about the Leading Creek Watershed here! The Meigs SWCD works with state agencies as well as volunteers to implement outreach and restoration projects and monitor the watershed, which is affected by acid mine drainage and other impairments.


Exciting Watershed Group Updates!            

Leading Creek Newsletters

April-June    July-September   January 2012

Events

Adopt-A-Highway
When: February 14th, 2012, 9AM-12PM
Where: Meet at Meigs SWCD office in Pomeroy
What: Come out and celebrate your love for the planet by helping to clean it up this Valentine's day!

8th Annual Photo Contest!
Theme: "Disgusting Water: Clean it Up!
Due: April 6th, 2012
For more information and forms, please visit our home page.

12th Annual Leading Creek Stream Sweep
When: April 14th, 9AM-12PM
Where: Jim Vennari Park in Rutland
What: Clean up and beautify the watershed! We will be hosting an Adopt-A-Highway event at the same time. Free lunch for all and free t-shirts to first 100 registrants.  Also offering electronics recycling to local residents and businesses. Plus, we will be announcing the winners of our annual photo contest!



See our home page and events calendar for great upcoming events such as our Tour of the Leading Creek Watershed and Educator Workshops!



Over the past year, the Meigs SWCD was awarded three grants to fund new projects and events in the watershed! Read about these in The Daily Sentinel. Grants were used to fund aspects of Stream Sweep, the Compositing Workshop, Electronics Waste Collection Day, and two projects, described below:

Stories of the Leading Creek Watershed Project
Funded in part by the Ohio Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn about history and stewardship in the Leading Creek Watershed.

-Borrow a copy from a library in Pomeroy, Athens, Albany, or Gallia!
-Buy a copy at the Meigs SWCD for $15! Supplies limited.

Leading Volunteer Monitors Program
A volunteer monitoring program in the watershed, started by the Ohio EPA through an Ohio Environmental Education Fund mini-grant.

This programs was a great success! Through the grant from September 2010 to June 2011:
    -We trained 29 volunteers
    -18 volunteers monitored
    -Monitored 33 sites
    -69.5 volunteer hours contributed
    -Taught 25 Meigs Intermediate students about water quality and monitoring!

Although the grant ended in June 2011, we are still accepting volunteers to continue this program!
Click here for a flyer or here for our Volunteers webpage. 

A big THANK YOU goes out to all of our volunteers who made these programs possible!

Water Quality Corner

Check out ODNR's Earth Resources Information Nework (ERIN) to view features such as watersheds, flood plains, stream ecology and much more throughout the entire state of Ohio!!

Learn all about the water quality of the watershed at
www.watersheddata.com! 

Click on the Leading Creek link and view past and current sampling sites in the watershed. The interactive map allows you to zoom in close and explore all areas of the watershed.

Leading Creek Watershed TMDL

Little Leading Creek Study 

Leading Creek AMDAT Plan

Watershed Management/Action Plan