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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2004 Sample Sites
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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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Inter-basin Coordinating Committee
Watershed Steering Committee
Sampling Event Coordinator
Lab Manager
Science Advisor(s)
County Area coordinator.
County Area coordinator.
County 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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1. Field Chemistry-Grab Sample Collection State
Of The Basin Project Logistics and
Overview Equipment Checkout and Site
Selection Field Chemistry Grab Sample
Collection and QAPP Field Test. (Performing the
tests in a field situation)
2. Biological and Habitat Assessment Stream
Hydrology Habitat Assessments Benthic
Macroinvertebrate Survey Methods Field Work and
Assessments
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1. Recertification for Grab Sample
Collection Training lasts for two years if you
participate in more than half of the sampling
events Training Updates Recommended at least
every two years If you dont sample for one
year, you need to be retrained.
2. Biological and Habitat Assessment Stream
Hydrology Habitat Assessments Benthic
Macroinvertebrate Survey Methods Field Work and
Assessments
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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 or from
their area coordinator. instructions are
included (Critical info on sample times and
delivery included)
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Sampling Event Logistics (It moves!)
Sampler
Sampler
Sampler
Sampler
Runner
Drop
LAB
Off
Sampler

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Professional labs analyze samples
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Monitoring Data
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What happens to the data? 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 2. Community awareness 3.
Assessment screening 4. PRIDE watershed
assessments 5. Grant Applications 6. Enforcement
efforts 7. Scientific research. 8. Data use
depends on quality control applied...
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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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What am I getting myself Into? As a volunteer,
you get to choose from Complete Basic
Training Conduct field surveys
Participate in Sampling Events
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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.
• 3. Latitude and Longitude
• Use www.topozone.com for decimal degrees or
  talk to your sampling event coordinator or area
  coordinator.

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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
You are the Supervising Sampler
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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Getting Organized
Get
Involved
Dont want to be the Supervisor?
Join an existing team
Participate in a "high visibility event"
Reclaim The River Day Earth Day Events
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BUZZ BREAK!
Complete Forms
Select your waterway
Check out equipment