Seneca Creek Watershed Stakeholder’s Meeting

Learn How to Protect the Seneca Creek Watershed at Stakeholder’s Meeting: Great Seneca Creek is the largest watershed located entirely within Montgomery County, and is a source of drinking water for much of the area. Residents interested in learning how to protect the Seneca Creek Watershed are invited to a stakeholder’s meeting on Wednesday, November 2 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Izaak Walton League of America – Rockville Chapter, 18301 Waring Station Road in Germantown.

The meeting will bring together people interested in local water quality and stewardship to learn more about the Great Seneca watershed, meet local watershed partners, and discuss ways to work together to improve local water quality.

The most recent County study ranks Great Seneca's tributaries from poor to good. Water quality is closely tied to the adjacent land use, and the most impaired sections of the watershed are in developed areas with a high level of impervious surface and a lack of modern stormwater controls. Watershed conditions in Great Seneca Creek generally improve in a downstream direction as land use densities decrease and County and state parkland increases substantially.

This meeting is sponsored by the City of Gaithersburg, the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, and Seneca Creek Watershed Partners. For more information please contact Audra Lew at 301-274-8110 or e-mail alew@icprb.org.

For more information on environmental initiatives in the City of Gaithersburg please visit the Environmental Services web page at www.gaithersburgmd.gov/environment or call 301-258-6330 or email environment@gaithersburgmd.gov.

(all info above provided by the City of Gaithersburg)