Information
Sponsors
US Geological Survey
Virginia Department
of Conservation and Recreation
Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality
Virginia Water Monitoring Council
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Virginia Department of Health
US Environmental Protection Agency
Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Virginia Commonwealth University
Chesterfield County
Friends of Chesterfield's Riverfront
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
Adopt-A-Stream
Coordinators
Dana Roberts
Gary Speiran
About
The
USGS Virginia Water Science Center
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Monitor Your Own Stream
Everyone is invited to test four key indicators of water
quality: temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. To
participate, you can register and monitor your own site or participate
at a registered site.
Register your site
Choose any lake, stream, bay, or other waterbody
where you can safely monitor. Register your site beginning July 18
each year by clicking on WWMD Database to enter the World Water
Monitoring Day registration database. Go to: http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org.
You may also register your monitoring event
with Stewardship
Virginia, a program sponsored by the Virginia
Department of Conservation and Recreation. Participants will
receive certificates.
Post your event information on this site by
contacting Gary Speiran (gspeiran@usgs.gov)
so others can participate.
Participate
at a registered site
Prepare your monitoring equipment
Use your own equipment or obtain an easy-to-use
test kit. Each kit contains an informative instruction book and
enough reagents to repeat up to 50 tests.
Monitor your site
Invite others to help you monitor or do it
yourself. Visit your site anytime from September 18 through
October 18 to test the water. When monitoring your own stream,
take care to verify that your data are within common
limits. These limits are purely guidelines and values can be
outside these limits. It would be good to retest the water if
your results are outside of these limits to verify your results.
Remember, safety first !
Report your data
Submit your results by
returning to the World
Water Monitoring Day website where you registered your site. Results may be
submitted anytime from September 18 through
December 18 for inclusion in the annual World Water Monitoring Day
summary reports. Take care to verify your results when submitting
them and compare them to the common
limits. Results from throughout Virginia will be
processed and then provided for posting on this website as are
results from previous years.
Other Pages Regarding This Event
Registration
Statewide Events
Richmond Area Events
Tools for Schools
Contacts
Previous
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