Hawk Creek Citizen Stream Monitoring Program
Inside this issue:
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Special Thanks to Citizen |
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News from around the watershed |
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Citizen Monitoring Results |
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Details on Data 2007 |
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Crossword Puzzle |
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Upcoming Meeting |
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“Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.
~William Ashworth,
Nor Any Drop to Drink, 1982
Well the 2007 monitoring season is complete! Please note that if in the past you did either transparency tube or rain gauge and are interested in doing both, let us know. Also if you have any equipment (rain gauges or t-tubes) that you are not using anymore, please let us know so that we can fix the equipment or get it back to the office for others to use, or if you do not want to participate in the program anymore, please let our office know so that we can inform MPCA that you are no longer participating.
The Citizen Monitor is a publication that will be printed after each monitoring season. This edition of The Citizen Monitor has data from the 2007 sampling year.
Transparency and rainfall data that you collect throughout the watershed is important and strengthens the Hawk Creek Watershed Project’s monitoring efforts. Monitoring results are also helpful in obtaining state and federal grants to help landowners connect and prevent pollution problems.
The Hawk Creek Watershed Project Citizen Monitoring Network data is not only used by us, but also the Minnesota Pollution Control Citizen Stream Monitoring Program and the Minnesota Climatological Network. Transparency tube data and Rainfall collected by citizens is shared with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). They use the information to write the annual Report on the Water Quality of Minnesota Streams, and assess the health of the streams through the TMDL process. Rainfall data is also used by the Minnesota Climatological Network to find rainfall trends throughout the state.
We are currently looking for more citizens. If you know anyone who might be interested in joining the Network, please call us at (320) 523-3666.
Your participation is what makes the Citizen Monitor Network a success.
We would like to thank the following citizen monitors for their hard work this year:
Jackie Ast, Lowell Bratsch, Loren Engelby, Randy Feifareck, Brad Froland, Ron Hanson, Marge Hegna, Chris & Steve Hettig, Virginia Homme, Don Knott, Don Korstad, Joyce & Gerry Lewison, Harriet Link, Myrna Lorentson, Kim Malmquist, Randy Nelson, William Schafer, John Sietsema, Steve Smith, and Lowell White.
Special Thanks To This Years Citizen Monitors
Hawk Creek Watershed Project · 500 East DePue Avenue · Olivia MN · 56277 · (320) 523-3666
Winter 2007
The Citizen Monitor