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Slippery Rock Coalition Adopt-A-Passive Treatment System A Success
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Well it has been a long time coming! The Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition has finally established our volunteer water monitoring program called “Adopt-A-Passive Treatment System.” The program provides the training and tools to help volunteers inspect, monitor, and maintain specific passive treatment systems that are located within the Slippery Rock Creek Watershed.
The volunteers will become the eyes and ears of the SRWC as they perform monthly site inspections and use field kits to conduct water monitoring. They will then enter their data onto Datashed, an on-line interactive database created by Stream Restoration Inc. and 241 Computers.
The very first training session for the volunteers was conducted on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at the Jennings Environmental Education Center. The training was conducted by Wil Taylor, JEEC Manager, and Cliff Denholm of Stream Restoration Inc.
Ten volunteers took part in the 5-hour training session which covered the formation of AMD, passive treatment components, water monitoring, site inspections, a tour of the Jennings passive system, etc.
Each volunteer was given a vest, clipboard, 5-gallon bucket, 1-gallon bucket, thermometer, pH kit, iron kit, alkalinity kit, and a training manual. Each volunteer will also be given a tour of their assigned system.
The SRWC is very excited about this program and is looking forward to seeing the data collected. What a wonderful team and what a great contribution to the community and to the sustainability of the environmental restoration efforts!!!
SRWC would like to thank their volunteers for donating their time to this important cause: Gary Watt, Todd Bluedorn, Ed Hartmann, Keith Vensel, Ron Greenwald, Jonathan Cameron, Jim North, Joseph Puskas, Bob Shearer and Brent Silvis.
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12/5/2011 |
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