Everyone lives in a watershed.
A watershed is the area of land that catches rain and snow and drains or
seeps into a marsh, stream, river, lake or groundwater.
We are in the
San Bernard Watershed.
San Bernard Watershed
USGS Cataloging Unit: 12090401
More specifically, we are part of the following Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC). Notice how the numbers below relate to our Watershed number.
San Bernard Coastal Accounting Unit 120904
Lower Colorado-San Bernard Coastal Subregion 1209
Texas-Gulf Region 12
Furthermore,
This unit flows directly into and terminates at the Atlantic Ocean
The area of this HUC is 1041.2 mi
The mean elevation is 125.0 ft.
Of the nature water in this HUC, 37% is intermittent.
| The following percentiles are for the feature density within the HUC, not for the raw total lengths |
Miles |
| Perennial Shoreline | 178.0 |
| Intermittent Shoreline | 11.6 |
| Perennial Streams | 474.9 |
| Intermittent Streams | 371.9 |
| Canals | 114.2 |
| Roads | 2,433 |
| Railroads | 134 |
| Pipes and Powerlines | 55 |
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