Streamwatch

Streamwatch training workshop

Saturday, May 20 at 10am

Would you like to be a Streamwatcher?

Attend a training session and join the BWA’s first and longest running program, Streamwatch. Become one of the 50+ volunteers who monitor and act as stewards of the streams near their homes. Water quality data is collected monthly to provide a graphic, long-term snapshot of the health of our streams.

This Streamwatch training session will be led by BWA member Darryl Speicher.

ABOUT THE CLEAN WATER ACT

River Network and Resource Media provides an overview of the history and contents of the Clean Water Act including designated uses, water quality criteria, and antidegradation (as well as what all that means!). It’s a great primer for community scientists, monitoring program staff, or anyone else interested in Clean Water Act policy and advocacy.

For River Network’s Clean Water Act resource page, click here.

Become a Steward of Your Local Stream

BWA’s first and longest running program is the highly successful Volunteer Streamwatch. This program enlists the help of nearly 90 volunteers who monitor and act as stewards of the streams near their homes. Volunteers collect water quality data from one or more sites once a month. The data is entered into a database used to provide a graphic, long-term snapshot of the health of the streams.

The largest benefit of the program, however, is the continued stewardship that volunteers provide by observing the day- to-day changes in their stream. Almost 100 sites are monitored throughout the watershed.

BECOME A STREAMWATCHER

What’s it like to be a Streamwatcher? Click HERE for a summary of what these vital volunteers do.

Can you commit 1-2 hours on a monthly basis to monitor one or more streams near your home? READ MORE AT OUR STREAMWATCH VOLUNTEER PAGE.

STREAMWATCH SITES:

in the BRODHEAD CREEK (MAP – UPPER) (MAP – LOWER)
in the MCMICHAEL CREEK WATERSHED (McMichael map 2020)
in the PARADISE CREEK WATERSHED ( MAP)
in the POCONO CREEK WATERSHED (MAP)
in the MARSHALLS CREEK WATERSHED (MAP)
in the CHERRY CREEK WATERSHED (MAP)

CONDUCTIVITY & CHLORIDE MONITORING PROJECT

+ WHY WE MONITOR CHLORIDE

+ SUMMARY OF 2018-2019 CHLORIDE TESTING

+WHY WE MONITOR CONDUCTIVITY

+VIEW A MAP OF CONDUCTIVITY MONITORING IN THE WATERSHED

+VIEW BWA CONDUCTIVITY DATA

Real Time Data from around the Watershed

Automated data loggers (“Mayfly loggers”) are installed around the watershed and transmit data (via a cell phone link) to the MonitorMyWatershed website, where it can be viewed and downloaded to your phone or computer.

View a map of data loggers installed by BWA around the watershed: BWA Data Loggers Click on the Pin to see more.

Visit the MonitorMyWatershed website to explore real time data across the country.

And explore these loggers installed by East Stroudsburg University