LESSON 3: ROUGE RIVER WATERSHED Students create a simple model of a watershed, identify important terminology about watersheds and use an infographic to analyze data from the Rouge River Watershed (RRW). The conclusion of the lesson is an activity to design a stream daylighting project. The project explores the impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO’s) as well as more comprehensive watershed restoration actions, including habitat restoration and storm water controls. The information from the infographic comes from several reports centered on the Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project, which was funded by the EPA, state and local governments.

This workshop provides an introduction to urban environmental design and explores the potential of information technology and the Internet to transform public education, city design, and community development in inner-city neighborhoods. Integration of comprehensive ("top-down") and grassroots ("bottom-up") approaches to design and planning is a major theme.