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12 2013 rock river basin coalition city of fitchburg presentation
1. “Our mission is to educate and provide
opportunities for people of diverse
interests to work together to improve
the environmental, recreational,
cultural, and economic resources of the
Rock River Basin.”
Nancy Sheehan,
Volunteer Stream Monitoring Coordinator
Rock River Coalition
2. WHERE IS THE ROCK
RIVER BASIN?
Covers ~ 11 counties
Home to 900,000
2,325 stream miles
150 lakes and
storm water
pounds
3. WHAT DOES THE ROCK RIVER
COALITION DO?
Citizen Stream Monitoring Program
Citizen Wetland Monitoring Program
Wisconsin Shoreland Restoration
Initiative
Events – Send Your Legislator Down the
River
Partnering with Local Resource
Organization
8. AND HOW DO WE
KNOW IF WE ARE
SUCCEEDING?
By Monitoring
4 USGS stations
MMSD Regular Nutrient
Sampling
Edge of Field Monitoring
UW Student-Led
Monitoring
WDNR
Citizen Water Quality
Monitoring
11. WATER ACTION VOLUNTEERS PROGRAM
…79 volunteer monitored sites within the Rock River Basin
…Over 200 volunteer monitored sites state-wide
Level 3
Special Research Studies: E
coli, crayfish, phosphorus, road
salt
LEVEL 2
continuous temperature,
dissolved oxygen,
transparency
LEVEL 1
temperature, dissolved
oxygen, transparency,
Biotic Index, Flow, Habitat
13. Rock River Coalition –
Yahara WINs:
2013 Volunteer Stream
Monitoring Project
23 new
WQ monitoring sites
14. 7 New Sites
Nutrient Sampling
(Level 3)
Volunteers collected water
samples once a month from
May to October
Samples were analyzed by
Madison Metropolitan
Sewerage District
total phosphorus,
total suspended solids
ortho-phosphorus
ammonia
nitrate
nitrite
15. 6 New Sites
Status and trends
(Level 2)
Volunteers monitored
once a month from May to
October
Continous temperature
disssolved oxygen
transparency
16. 10 New Sites
Baseline
Volunteers monitored
once a month from May
to October
temperature
dissolved oxygen
transparency
Biotic Index
flow
Going to focus on volunteer effort then USGS monitoring
Great presentations – many opportunities of public engagement in creating a better picture of the natural world – now want to extend a special invite…RRC stream monitoring program….
RRC Stream Monitoring Program:
(1) Initiated in 2003
(2) Part of state wide water quality monitoring program called – Water Action Volunteers.
This program is coordinated through a partnership between the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the University of Wisconsin – Cooperative Extension. The WAV program has established monitoring protocols that have been tested and provide detailed instructions to promote ease of use and accuracy of data. WAV program also provides the database which volunteers submit their data.
(3) Also partner with local county land and water conservation specialist as well as local water resource organizations.