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Watersheds
A watershed is defined as an area of land that drains to a given location.
Rice Creek for example, drains all of the land shown in this
map. The creek then flows into the Mississippi River at Fridley. Water
in the areas outside of this map, drain to other
streams
and thus is in a different watershed.When thinking about watersheds, it
is important
to remember that they occur at many different scales. The Rice Creek watershed
is itself part of the Mississippi River Watershed, and within the Rice
Creek watershed, there are an infinite number of smaller watersheds. To
learn
more about watersheds, visit the EPA
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