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Your Organizations’ Name Stream Monitoring Results – 201x

Name of presenter Date of presentation . Your Organizations’ Name Stream Monitoring Results – 201x. To help preserve and protect Wisconsin’s over 15,000 lakes and 86,000 miles of rivers. . Why do we monitor our waters? . Educate citizens about the status of our water.

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Your Organizations’ Name Stream Monitoring Results – 201x

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  1. Name of presenter Date of presentation Your Organizations’ Name Stream Monitoring Results – 201x

  2. To help preserve and protect Wisconsin’s over 15,000 lakes and 86,000 miles of rivers. Why do we monitor our waters?

  3. Educate citizens about the status of our water

  4. Obtain water resource data useful for DNR and local decision-making

  5. Advocate for management and protection of our water

  6. DATA USE EXAMPLES • Characterize a stream or region • Assess long-term water quality trends • More data on streams for state and federal reporting • Assess potential of streams to support trout • Restoration

  7. Where we monitor

  8. What’s monitored?

  9. What’s monitored -- Level 1 • Water temperature • Transparency • Macroinvertebrates • Habitat • Dissolved Oxygen • Stream Flow

  10. What’s monitored -- Level 2 • Continuous temperature • pH • Dissolved Oxygen • Transparency

  11. What’s monitored – Level 3 • Varies among projects • Projects have included: • E. coli monitoring • Crayfish survey • Treatment plant outfall thermal assessment • Specific conductance and chloride • Phosphorus • Stream flow methods comparison • Other research projects with DNR biologists

  12. Temperature change affects all aquatic life Warmer water holds less oxygen than cold water Turbid or cloudy water heats up faster Turbid or cloudy water hinders light penetration necessary for plant growth and production of dissolved oxygen. Dissolved Oxygen is necessary for all plants and animals. Lower levels can cause death or distress to animals. Transparency or Water Clarity can be a useful indicator of runoff from construction sites, industrial discharges & other sources Source: Gatzke/Shaw

  13. Temperature • Number of sites • Frequency of collection Our results: temperature

  14. OUR Results: Continuous Water Temperature

  15. OUR Results: Continuous Water Temperature

  16. OUR Results: Continuous Water Temperature

  17. Turbidity can affect: • Sight feeders • Water temperature • Plant growth (therefore oxygen production) Our results: TRANSPARENCY (Clarity)

  18. 12, Plant growth hindered 8-20, Brook trout use more energy to find food; decline in distance over which they can detect prey 15-30, Decline in distance over which rainbow trout can detect prey 30-60, Decline in distance over which bluegill can detect prey 25, Salmonid gills irritated, ability to find food declines; perch growth & foraging declines 40, Brook trout growth rates decline, increase in macroinvertrbrates floating freely downstream OUR Results: Transparency

  19. n =10,814 OUR results:Transparency

  20. D.O. levels below 2 mg/L generally don’t support aquatic life D.O. below 4 or 5 mg/L won’t support life for long. D.O. above 7 mg/L is preferable for trout Our results: Dissolved Oxygen

  21. Our results: Dissolved oxygen

  22. Our Results: pH

  23. 10 samples below 6 in 20 streams in six counties (Adams, Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Price and Wood) 12 samples above 9 in eight streams in seven counties (Adams, Douglas, Eau Claire, Marquette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, and Price) Our Results: pH

  24. A way to rate water quality based on organisms that live in the water. • How Healthy is the Stream? • Excellent, 3.6+ • Good, 2.6 - 3.5 • Fair, 2.1 - 2.5 • Poor , 1.0 - 2.0 Our results: Macroinvertebrates- Bugs

  25. The volume of water moving past a cross-section of stream over a set period of time Measured in CFS= cubic foot per second Defines the shape, size, and course of the stream Our results: Flow

  26. Our results: Flow

  27. Riparian zone (stream edge) • Vegetation • Stream bank condition • Substrate (stream bottom) • Rocky vs. soft • Water characteristics • Pools, riffles, and runs Our results: habitat

  28. Our Results: Habitat

  29. Get involved!

  30. Volunteer Requirements • What skills to you need? • Interest in monitoring • Able to walk along stream banks & enter water • Enjoy the outdoors!

  31. Attend annual training in spring • Field & classroom • Monthly data collection • Enter data online • Share equipment with others • Collect & return temperature loggers in fall Volunteer Requirements

  32. Your website • Your email • Your phone number • Other resources • http://watermonitoring.uwex.edu/wav/ • http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/surfacewater/monitoring.html Contact us

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