Watershed Watch

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Watershed Watch
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What is a Watershed?
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Watershed Watch Project Overview and Logistics

• Goals for this module
• Discuss the goals and objectives of the project
• Learn who we are and how we are organized
• Lean about our basic activities.
• Determine the streams and sites you want to work
  on
• Complete essential registration paperwork
• Check out the equipment you need.

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Mission Statement
Watershed Watch in Kentucky is a statewide
citizens monitoring effort to improve and protect
water quality by raising community awareness, and
supporting implementation of the goals of the
Clean Water Act.
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Goal Get people into the real world to see first
hand the condition of their streams.
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Watershed Watch Is Statewide
Watershed Watch holds 501.C3 status KWA Inc, LRWW
Inc, UCWW Inc, TGWW Inc, KRWW Inc, and JPF Inc
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Watershed Watch in Kentucky Organizational
Structure
Why is this chart upside down? This represents
a bottom up organization where each level
exists to support the work of the level above it.
The real action with this project is at the
local watershed level. The Basin Steering
Committees work to be sure the people in those
areas have the tools to be successful. The state
level Coordinating Committee is dedicated to
being sure the basins are successful in their
work..
Supervising Sampler
Supervising Sampler
Supervising Sampler
Supervising Sampler
Supervising Sampler
Area Coordinators
Drop Off Center Contacts and Sample Runners
Lab Managers
Sampling Event Coordinator
Science Advisory Group
Volunteer Trainers
Data Manager
Data to Action Committee
Conference Committee
Local Watershed Steering Committee (8)
Executive Committee Chair, Treasurer, Secretary
State Science Advisory Group
Volunteer Training and Certification Group
Monitoring Event Support Team
Data Management Group
Data to Action Committee
Publication Editorial Board
Kentucky Watershed Watch Inter-basin Coordinating
Committee
Executive Committee Chair, Treasurer, Secretary
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Science Advisory Group
Quality Assurance Group
Inter-basin Coordinating Committee
Publications Review Board
Data Management Team
Watershed Steering Committee
Watershed Steering Committee
Watershed Steering Committee
Science Advisor(s)
Science Advisor(s)
Science Advisor(s)
Lab Manager
Lab Manager
Lab Manager
Sampling Event Coordinator
Sampling Event Coordinator
Sampling Event Coordinator
Area coordinator.
Area coordinator.
Area coordinator.
Supervising Sampler.
Supervising Sampler.
Supervising Sampler.
Supervising Sampler.
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What we do
1. Conduct field surveys
2. Collect samples for lab analysis 3.
Discuss and act on results
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Common Measurements Common Language With Resource
Management Agencies
1. Habitat Assessments
2. Biological Assessments
3. Field Chemistry

4. Lab Analysis
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Initial Training Workshops
2. Biological and Habitat Assessment
1. Field Chemistry and Grab Sample
Collection
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Field Work
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Habitat Assessment
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Watershed Watch Protocols Level I
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Field Chemistry Measurements
Analysis that can only be done at the creek

• Dissolved Oxygen
• pH
• Conductivity
• Temperature

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Grab Sample Collections for Laboratory Analysis

• Herbicides, Spring
• Pathogens, Summer
• Water Chemistry, Fall

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Volunteers receive materials by mail instructions
are included (Critical info on sample times and
delivery included)
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Sampling Event Logistics (It moves!)
Team
Team
Team
Team
Runner
Drop
LAB
Off
Team

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Professional labs analyze samples
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Monitoring Data
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Monitoring Data Management 1. Lab sends
results to Basin Data Manager 2. Data Manager
reviews for accuracy 3. Draft report
circulated for review and corrections (You
should get to see it in this form) 4. Revised
draft posted on web in MS Excel format. 5.
Reports released at year end conference. 6. Data
archived on web in electronic form and
in hard copy at KY Division of Water as a
public record.
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What the data are used for 1. Participants get
first hand information on their streams 2.
Community awareness generated from sampling
events 3. Watershed Framework assessment
screening 4. PRIDE watershed assessments 5.
Wastewater treatment needs assessments (201
plans) 6. EQUIP/BMP grant applications 7.
Documentation for enforcement efforts 8. Data
available for scientific research. 9. Data use
depends on quality control applied...
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Quality Control Requirements

Potential QA/AC Requirements
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Data Use
Incident Reporting
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Education Programs
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Local Awareness
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Watershed Screening
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Local Planning Activities
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Effectiveness Monitoring
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TMDL Monitoring
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Use Support Determination
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1. Consultation with agency
2. Written Study Plan outlining who, what, when,
and where sampling will take place
3. Adherence to Code of Federal Regulations
40-136 sampling provisions
4. Pre-Approved Quality Assurance Project Plan
(EPA Standards)
5. Compliance with Kentucky Division of Water
Standard Operating Procedures
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Year End Conferences
1. Discuss findings
2. Network with fellow volunteers and agency
representatives
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Follow Up Focus Studies and Citizen Action Plans
1. Conduct more detailed sampling on a specific
waterway
2. Develop a plan of action based on your findings
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You are the real purpose of this project
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Participant Agreement Outlines
Project Activities (pull them out now! (please)

• Participant Agreement
• Your Name_________
• Contact Information
• _____________________
• Activity list
• ___Creek Visit
• __sending reports
• __Herbicide Event
• __Take Sample
• Equipment checkout
• Monitoring schedule
• ___Site info
• ___Safety

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• Participant Agreement
• Your Name_________
• Contact Information
• _____________________
• Activity list
• ___Creek Visit
• __sending reports
• __Herbicide Event
• __Take Sample
• Equipment checkout
• Monitoring schedule
• ___Site info
• ___Safety

Participant Agreement Fill both out Turn one
in (before you leave) Keep one as your
reminder. We will answer questions about them
as the workshop progresses.
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Selecting your stream site

• Selection Criteria
• Sign up for a Priority Site Or,
• Identify a site that interests you.
• Site must have Water all year round
• Should be within 5 miles of where you
• live or work. (no more than 20)

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Identify your Site

• 1. Stream name from map
• 2. Location Description
• Correct!
• 50 meters upstream of Hwy 1533 bridge.
• 100 m Due South of Knott Central High School.
• NOT
• Out back of house
• near Flossy Mays barn at the big tree
• 3. Latitude and Longitude
• Use www.topozone.com for decimal degrees.

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Getting Organized
You are the Supervising Sampler
(Team Leader)
Equipment is checked out to you.
Plan outings and expeditions
Recruit others to join in
Set Safety Rules
Keep in touch with sampling event coordinators
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Getting Organized
Who to contact?
Your Area Coordinator
Sampling Event Coordinator
Lab Manager (Limit contact)
1-800-928-0045 Ext 473 (State)
Http//kywater.org/watch/
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Be Safe and Get Permission!
Know where you are going
Ask permission on private property
Stream banks are
hazardous
places
If you are accident prone....
BE CAREFUL!

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Getting Organized
Get
Involved
Dont want to be the Supervisor?
Join an existing team
Participate in a "high visibility event"
(you dont have to log out gear)
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BUZZ BREAK!
Complete Forms
Select your waterway
Check out equipment