Cache De La Poudre Watershed

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A watershed is an area of land that run off water from rain or snow flows into and is then separated to a river or lake. Greeley has a watershed called cache de la poudre watershed. A watershed affects the quality and amount of flow through a stream or river at a given point. with $450 billion worth of food, fiber, manufactured goods and tourism. According to an article on nationalgeographic.org it says “they affect the quality and amount of flow through a stream or river at a given point.” This is saying that the watersheds in our environment are beneficial to our rivers.
My project for the watershed project is to replace all of the styrofoam trays that the school uses and replace them all with hard plastic trays that can be washed and reused.

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