Watersheds
Land where water flows to a common point.
What is a watershed?
This is another name for when rain, snow, or hail falls down.
What is precipitation?
This is why the Bull Run Watershed was chosen as the best drinking water for Portland.
What is cleanliness?
This was the most common animal used to help build the Bull Run Watershed system.
What are horses?
This is the amount of reservoirs at the Bull Run Watershed.
What is 2?
What is the ocean?
What are sleet, hail, rain, and snow?
What is turbidity?
This is what dam 2 is made of.
What is rocks and clay?
These are how Bull Run got its name.
What are the bulls that ran loose from the White Settlers ("Pioneers") of Portland?
This is how rivers get bigger.
What is joining with other rivers?
What is transpiration?
This is the name of the place where our drinking water comes from.
What is Bull Run Watershed?
This is the material that some pipes used to be made of.
What is wood?
This is the name of the river that White settlers of Portland used to drink from.
What is the Willamette?
This is where you can find watersheds.
Where is everywhere?
This is how water gets into clouds.
What is evaporation?
This is how much water is stored in both reservoirs at Bull Run Watershed.
What is 17 billion gallons of water?
This group of people were the first to chart, hunt, fish, and gather on the land of the Bull Run Watershed.
Who are the indigenous tribes of Oregon?
This is the year that Colonel Isaac Smith set out to find a better drinking source for the White Settlers of Portland.
What is 1886?
This is where the watershed begins on the mountain.
What is glacial melt?
What is infiltration?
This is where we can get extra drinking water if we need it.
What is Columbia Southshore Wellfield?
This can be found buried inside of dam 2.
What are peanut butter sandwiches and a carton of milk?
This is the average rainfall (in inches) in the Bull Run Watershed.
What is 80-140 inches?