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New Watershed Mobile Phone Audio Tour Now Available
Easily accessed from any cell phone, the Watershed Mobile Phone Audio Tour is the first of its kind in Sarasota County. By dialing (941) 926-6813, you can hear up to 15 different educational messages about watersheds. While you can listen to a message from anywhere, visiting the sites listed on the menu provides an up-close and personal experience.
By listening to these informative messages, you’ll discover diverse aspects of the watershed, learn interesting facts, and easy ways you can help protect the watershed. For instance, learn how litter and pollution affect sealife, understand the role of wetlands, and find out about green roofs or learn to make your own rain barrel.
Click here for a complete menu of mobile phone audio tour messages
Celebrate Watershed Awareness Week
October 12 – 18, 2009
To help create public awareness about the importance of our watersheds, the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners has declared October 12th through 18th “Watershed Awareness Week.” To celebrate, watershed-related educational events and programs for the whole family are scheduled throughout the week at SEC member sites. The public is invited to attend one or several of these fun, nature-based activities that teach awareness and good stewardship of watersheds.
Click here for a complete list of events during Watershed Awareness Week
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Our DVD
"The Watershed And You: A Direct Connection" is created in a human interest, documentary style, that tells the story of our interdependency on the watershed and its role in sustaining the health and vibrant beauty of our community. Utilizing wonderful video footage including aerial views, live interviews, maps, photography, and music, this 20-minute multimedia piece is meant to raise public awareness about a complex issue that is important to sustaining our quality of life here in Sarasota County. You will also learn the important roles individuals, neighborhoods, and communities can play in preserving the watershed.
"The Watershed And You" has been produced by the SEC Southern Coastal Watershed Leadership Program with funding provided by the Manasota Basin Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District and Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice.
Get a copy of the DVD by calling 941-955-9089
"The Watershed and You: A Direct Connection‚" airs on Access Sarasota Channel 19. Go to www.scgov.net and click on Online Services for a current schedule.
Watershed Educational Kiosks
Educational kiosks developed by SEC enhance our understanding of the County's watersheds and teach how the productivity and vitality of natural systems, stormwater, water supply, wastewater, and land-use are all part of an integrated system. Emphasis is placed on the intregal part everyone plays in the sustenance of a dynamic, living system, and the impacts of watersheds on each citizen's quality of life. Kiosks can be found at the following locations:
Outdoor Watershed Interpretive Signs
Find these educational signs at the following locations:
Aquarian Quest’s boat launch, Nokomis Beach Park, Albee Rd and Casey Key Rd., Nokomis
Bay Preserve, 400 Palmetto Ave., Osprey
Crowley Museum and Nature Center, 16405 Myakka Rd., Sarasota
Florida House Learning Center, 4454 B., Beneva Rd., Sarasota
GWIZ - The Science Museum, 1001 Boulevard of the Arts, Sarasota
Historic Spanish Point, 337 N. Tamiami Trail, Osprey
Indian Mound Park at Lemon Bay, 210 Winson Ave., Englewood
Ken Thompson Park, 1700 Ken Thompson Pkwy., Sarasota
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 811 S. Palm Ave, Sarasota
Mote Marine Aquarium, 1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota
New College of Florida campus, 5800 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Oscar Scherer State Park, 1843 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey
Phillippi Estate Park, 5500 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Sapphire Shores/Sun Circle Park, Sun Circle Dr., Sarasota
The watershed education kiosks and signs were produced by SEC with funding from the Manasota Basin Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District.
Watershed Leadership Workshops
SEC has held a number of workshops involving policy and decision-makers in Sarasota County. These workshops have led to consensus and priority documents about water. Click on the links below to download the Consensus and Water Priorities documents.
Consensus 2009
Water Priorities 2007
Consensus 2005
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