Working together to protect and restore the ecological health of the Harpeth River Watershed

 
 

 

--JOIN TODAY!

--Calendar
--Around the Watershed

--Surf Your Watershed (EPA)
--Harpeth Management Plan (TDEC)

--Section 319 of Clean Water Act

--My Backyard
--My Farm

WHAT IS A WATERSHED?

 

Download: Map of the Harpeth River Watershed
in PDF format

 

A watershed is the area of land that sheds water into a river system.

For example, the land on either side of a stream, and all of the land that channels rain to that stream is that stream's watershed.

Rain falling on a hillside in parts of Brentwood is in the watershed of the Little Harpeth River. Since the Little Harpeth flows to the Harpeth, that hillside is also in the Harpeth River Watershed. Since the Harpeth flows to the Cumberland River, the entire Harpeth River Watershed is also in the Cumberland River Watershed. The Cumberland River flows to the Tennessee River, then to the Ohio River and then to the Mississippii River which flows to the ocean.

What we do here in our little watershed can have a big effect, from here to the ocean.

 

For public access points along the Harpeth River, check out Our River

 

The Harpeth River has 5 large subwatersheds:

Little Harpeth River (in Brentwood area)
West Harpeth River (south/west of Franklin )
South Harpeth River (near Hwy 100)
Turnbull Creek (Kingston Springs)
Jones Creek (Dickson)

 
Harpeth River Watershed Association, P.O. Box 1127, Franklin, TN 37065,
615-790-9767, www.harpethriver.org, hrwa@harpethriver.org