Wood River Watershed Day
ORGANIZATION: Illinois RiverWatch Network
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You are invited to join Illinois RiverWatch and One Mississippi on June 24 th in Bethalto for water quality monitoring and trash pickup on Rocky Branch and West Fork of Wood River streams. These streams flow into Wood River Creek, which is on the Illinois EPA’s "impaired streams" list for polluted waters. Your assistance will help determine what the water quality of Rocky Branch and East Fork of Wood River is and clean them up to improve river health for the future. You can stay all day or choose which part of the event you will participate in.
Lunch is provided for the first 30 volunteers participating in the cleanup portion!
What to bring: We will provide trash bags, gloves, water quality montioring equipment, lunch for the first 30 registrants participating in the afternoon cleanup, and water to drink. Please wear old clothing, and rubber boots or old tennis shoes for wading.
Note for families: only one person from your family needs to register, but please mark how many other people you are bringing. Also, we will be climbing somewhat steep stream banks and wading in water, so the very young or the very old may not comfortably be able to participate.
Please register at https://goo.gl/2tmdwC
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About Illinois RiverWatch Network
Location:
One Confluence Way, East Alton, IL 62024, US
Mission Statement
The Illinois RiverWatch Network safeguards the future of Illinois rivers and streams through stewardship, education and sound science. RiverWatch utilizes trained volunteers to collect quality assured data on wadeable streams and fosters coordination among groups involved in similar monitoring efforts.
Description
The Illinois RiverWatch Network is a volunteer monitoring initiative coordinated by the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center.
- Goal The primary goals of the program are to measure how the conditions of our state's streams are changing over time, and to educate Illinois citizens about the ecology of Illinois’ water resources.
- What do volunteers do? RiverWatch Citizen Scientists conduct annual habitat and biological surveys of their adopted stream site(s) during May and June. They collect and identify small aquatic organisms that are important indicators of stream health.
- Where will you monitor? Citizen Scientists adopt a 200-foot stretch of wadeable stream to monitor near to their job, home, or school.
- What happens to the data? Data is available to the public and can be downloaded from the database.
- Who can participate? RiverWatch welcomes families, organizations, and interested individuals! No prior experience is required.
- How much will it cost to join? While we charge a small, one-time training workshop fee, there are no membership fees. Monitoring equipment can be borrowed from any one of our loaner kit locations.
- How to join Contact us at 618-468-2784 or riverwatch@lc.edu for additional information and to be added to our mailing list.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Steve Bryant Community Park4300 Culp LnBethalto, IL 62010
DATE POSTED
May 9, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- 6 hours
- Registration required at https://goo.gl/2tmdwC