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What Is Delaware Stream Watch?

Delaware Stream Watch is a grassroots, volunteer program founded in 1985 that conducts statewide citizen monitoring. With rigorous quality assurance procedures, volunteers perform tests like dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity at various locations. Supported by local industry, the program ensures data availability to the public. Partnerships with the state and local businesses help sustain and expand the initiative. Maintaining volunteer engagement and program focus are key challenges addressed to ensure continued success.

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What Is Delaware Stream Watch?

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  1. What Is Delaware Stream Watch? • Grassroots, volunteer program • Statewide • Citizen monitoring • Education • Founded in 1985

  2. Technical Monitoring • Supported by local industry • Rigorous - Quality Assurance Project Plan • Christina River Basin - 38 locations, monthly schedule • Mispillion Watershed - 5 locations • Appoquinimink Watershed – 5 locations • Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) • Data available to public as well

  3. Citizen Science • Volunteers Perform All Tests • Tests • Dissolved Oxygen • Meter • Conductivity • Meter • pH, Alkalinity, Nitrates, & Orthophosphate • Field Kits • Other Measurements • Temperature • Depth • Turbidity • Salinity • Flow • 2 times per year • Tests performed -

  4. How Did it Happen? • Volunteer Driven • 2 years volunteers monitored same sites as State • A Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) was written in accordance with EPA regulations and State approved • Continue to update quality control methodology

  5. Partnerships • Both with the State and Local industry & businesses • Enabled us to leverage additional funds • Improve Relationships & Standing in the Community

  6. The Challenges inSustaining A Successful Monitoring Program • How to keepvolunteers active & engaged • Keeping the program strong & focused • Expand the program

  7. How to Keep Program Strong & Focused

  8. Volunteers are #1

  9. How to Maintain a Successful Program

  10. Thank You! Ginger North Stream Watch Coordinator P.O Box 700 Hockessin DE 19707 Phone 302 239 2334 x 100 ginger@delawarenaturesociety.org

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