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National Water Monitoring Day
(photos from James River at Tredegar Iron Works)

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Explaining the importance of benthic invertebrates
Jay Gilliam (Va. Division of the Izaak Walton League, Va, Save Our Streams) explains the significance of benthic invertebrates to water-quality sampling.

Analyzing water samples.

Agency staff (Va. Dept. of Environmental Quality and Alliance for Chesapeake Bay) and students analyze water samples on the banks of the James.

Electrofishing demonstration

Personnel from the Va. Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries demonstrate electrofishing equipment.

Analyzing water samples

Students and USGS employees analyze water samples.

Dignitaries at NWMD

From left to right, Ward Staubitz, Va. District Chief, USGS; Jay Gilliam, Va. Division of the Izaak Walton League, Va. Save Our Streams; W. Tayloe Murphy,Jr., Va. Secretary of Natural Resources; Patti Jackson, Director, James River Association; Robert Hirsch, Associate Director for Water, USGS.

In addition, students and citizens collected and analyzed water samples from more than 40 sites in the watershed. Water-quality data from these samples will be posted on this Web site as soon as all the data are in (deadline for entering data into the Year of Clean Water database is November 15, 2002). 


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