Water Quality Monitoring
The goal of the Water Quality Monitoring Program is to establish at least a four-year baseline of water quality on the streams and rivers within our service area.
The baseline data will be used to determine the overall health of watersheds and troubled spots will be investigated. The Superior Rivers Watershed Association, other data users, and the community can then make more informed decisions on supporting proposals concerning land use, conservation efforts and other projects to preserve the vital habitat and water quality of the watersheds. Continual monitoring should then be able to detect changes to water quality in the future.
Chemistry Monitoring
The goal is to collect baseline data on several points of the major tributaries.
Data to be collected consists of basic water chemistry temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, chloride and turbidity to be uploaded to the states surface water data base.
Macroinvertebrate Collecting
Collecting macroinvertebrates are an easy way to collect valuable water quality data.
Twice a year in the spring and fall Superior Rivers trains volunteers to go out to our monitoring sites and collect macroinvertebrates to be identified.
Reports
Using the data we collect and looking at state resources we come up with reports for the different watersheds feeding into Lake Superior.
We also monitor specific sites for other partners and other restoration projects.
Additional Resources
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