{"id":534,"date":"2012-02-23T02:49:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/?p=534"},"modified":"2012-02-23T02:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:49:19","slug":"impacts-of-development-on-watershed-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/23\/impacts-of-development-on-watershed-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Impacts of Development on Watershed Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/watershed-effects.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-536\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/watershed-effects-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/watershed-effects-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/files\/2012\/02\/watershed-effects.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oeconline.org\/our-work\/rivers\/stormwater\/stormwater%20report\/impacts\">website<\/a>, created by the Oregon Environmental Council, is designed to educate people about the impacts that development can have on local watersheds. It illustrates the impact that even a small, one family home can have on a local ecosystem. The construction of a single family home can create impervious surfaces on anywhere from 25 to 60% of the property. The amount of impervious surface needed to cause a significant amount of damage to an ecosystem is often less than 10%. This figure is only for a single family home. When we talk about the impact of urban developments that can have close to 100% impervious surface cover the damage to the ecosystem is unavoidable. It is important to realize the widespread effects that development can have on local watersheds and the surrounding ecosystems. Take a look at this website to look at some of the other ways that ecosystems can be damaged by urban development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website, created by the Oregon Environmental Council, is designed to educate people about the impacts that development can have on local watersheds. It illustrates the impact that even a small, one family home can have on a local ecosystem. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/2012\/02\/23\/impacts-of-development-on-watershed-areas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/roadandrail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}