The watershed program offers technical assistance to watershed groups, municipalities, and individual citizens. A watershed is a geographic area of land across which water, and the sediments and dissolved materials it contains, flow on their way to a single common outlet -- a stream, lake or river.
A lumbar peritoneal (LP) shunt is a technique of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion from the lumbar thecal sac to the peritoneal cavity.
Shunt surgery has been found to be effective in such hydrocephalus. A lumbar peritoneal (LP) shunt has an advantage of being an entirely extracranial operation. It is a very effective and safe method of treatment in communicating hydrocephalus compared to the ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt. A LP shunt is also effective under some nonhydrocephalus conditions.