Want to monitor the health of your neighborhood stream? Contribute to citizen science? Adopt a Stream!
Our local rivers and streams play an important role in not only the ecosystem, but also our quality of life. Clean water and a natural river system keeps us healthy, offers us fun recreational opportunities (boating, fishing, swimming), and makes our communities safe by handling storms naturally.
Adopt a Stream is a program that invites people to monitor the health of their local stream. Adopters can:
- Monitor stream flow/level
- Monitor stream water temperatures
- Monitor water pH
- Observe weekly conditions to notice anything unusual
- Lead a local clean up day
C4R will help you get started and provide support to help volunteers monitor their local adopted stream. C4R, for an offering of $20 to cover supplies, will provide an Adopter with a rugged stream thermometer, a pH test kit for 50 samples, a volunteer guide booklet, data sheets, and tips on caring for your stream. C4R would ask that all seasonal data be submitted to C4R for review and analysis.
Our goal is to recruit Adopters through the spring and launch this program by the middle of May. So if you wish to participate, please SIGN UP!
See our web site under “About 4Rivers” and go to streams list to see your local stream. THANK YOU.
C4R-Adopt a Stream 2017 Flyer
C4R – Care 4 Rivers
Contact us! chicopeewatershed@gmail.com or send a note
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