Watersheds

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.