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| LOCATION: |
Northeast Ohio, Cuyahoga, Portage, Summit and Geauga Counties, including the communities of
Beachwood, Bedford, Bedford Heights, Glenwillow, Highland Heights, Maple Heights, North Randall, Oakwood Village, Orange Village, Solon, Valley View, Walton Hills, Warrensville Heights, Bainbridge Township, Aurora, Franklin Township, Streetsboro, Sugar Bush Knolls, Hudson Village, Macedonia, Northfield, Reminderville, Twinsburg, and Twinsburg Township |
| CHARACTERISTICS |
| Drainage: |
approximately 100 square miles |
| Length: |
Tinkers Creek is 28.2 miles long. The watershed contains approximately 554 miles of feeder streams and main stem. |
| Gradient: |
The creek drops an average of 15 feet per mile, although through Tinkers Creek Gorge it drops 220 feet over 2 miles. |
| Land Cover: |
Tinkers Creek is a classic countryside-to-cityside watershed, with open natural areas at its outer headwaters changing to urbanized areas in Cleveland's suburbs. It is interesting to note that in the area where it joins the Cuyahoga, its mouth, the creek returns to relatively natural surroundings. |
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| WATERSHED-SPECIFIC CHALLENGES TO HEALTH AND FUNCTION |
• increasing urbanization brings roadways, parking lots, roofs and increases in impervious surfaces, with resulting urban runoff, faster flows and increased volumes of storm water that degrade stream banks and bring litter and petrochemicals into the streams;
• combined sewer overflows (CSOs) allow bacteria-laden sewage to bypass treatment plants and enter waterways untreated during storm events;
• construction at headwaters destroys stream function and changes the soil structure to denser, less permeable soild, encourages erosion, and adds vast amounts of sediment which impairs aquatic life and widens flood areas;
• loss of wetlands, which store and filter water, means more pollution-carrying water pours across the surface and directly into streams. degrading water quality |
| WATERSHED HYDROLOGY |
The large number of headwater streams flowing throughout the watershed mean an equally large number of flood plains in the subwatersheds. |
| WATER QUALITY |
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The Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization (CRCPO)
is host to the Cuyahoga River Remedial Action Plan (RAP) and
the Cuyahoga American Heritage River Initiative.
We work with partners, stakeholders and communities
in five Northeast Ohio counties to restore and revitalize the
Cuyahoga River Watershed and Areas Of Concern, and
to improve water quality in the watershed and Lake Erie.
www.cuyahogariverrap.org
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