Learn More About Your Watershed

Blanchard River Watershed

The watershed drains 771 square miles and includes parts of Allen, Hancock, Hardin, Putnam, Wyandot and Seneca counties. It is a 103-mile-long tributary of the Auglaize River in Northwest Ohio. It originates in Kenton and flows west toward Ottawa.

The land use in the watershed is 81% row crop, 10% developed urban/residential, 6% forest, 3% pasture and grasslands and less than 1% open water/wetlands.

Want to see where you live and what watershed you fall in?

Check out this Interactive Map!

ON THE FARM

- Slow the water down coming off your fields
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Check out the links below:

Implement BMPs

AT HOME

- Participate in Community Cleanups as a Volunteer
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Utilize a Rain Barrel

Check out the links below:

Plant a Prairie Garden

How Can you Help the Monarch Butterflies

AT WORK

- Implement Green Policies & Energy Efficient Systems
- Install a prairie on your grounds
- Volunteer for Community Events

PARTNERS

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Learn More About Your Watershed

Blanchard River Watershed

ON THE FARM

- Slow the water down coming off your fields -

Check out the links below:

AT HOME

- Participate in Community Cleanups as a Volunteer - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Utilize a Rain Barrel

Check out the links below:

AT WORK

- Implement Green Policies & Energy Efficient Systems - Install a prairie on your grounds - Volunteer for Community Events

PARTNERS

- Slow the water down coming off your fields
-

- Participate in Community Cleanups as a Volunteer
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Utilize a Rain Barrel

- Implement Green Policies & Energy Efficient Systems
- Install a prairie on your grounds
- Volunteer for Community Events