Water Quality Monitoring

[timinmo]

You could write this off to the winter time crazies, but I have been thinking about it for quite sometime. I have been doing Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring for a couple of years now and would like to expand my involvement. As a way of doing this I would like to extend an open invitation to any OA member. I will come to your river or stream and with you and anyone you would like to include (friends and family welcome) we will check the water quality of your stream.

The VWQM program is a joint program supported by MDC, DNR, and the Conservation Federation of Missouri. If you would like to learn more about it the Missouri Stream Team web site(Mostreamteam.org) has information.

My reasons for doing this is to introduce people to the program before they commit to taking any of the classes. You may decide that it is not for you. I hope that you will decide to become more involved. Either way there are no strings and any future involvement is up to you.

I also hope to see some new water. There are numerous streams that I am not familiar with and would like to see. Most of the time when we do monitoring we have a chance to do a little fishing. That would be up to you and the amount of time available. Do not think that you stream is too small. Actually smaller streams seem to work better than large rivers but both are doable.

Reason number three is that it will give me a chance to meet some of the people on OA or get to know people better that I have already met.

As something of a disclaimer. I do work and am married. So I can not have every weekend tied up doing this but I am willing to commit several weekends and or days. Currently I am off on Sundays and Mondays. I am open for almost any suggestions but most of this will involve me traveling to your stream doing the monitoring with you and returning home. I live just south of St. Louis. Obviously this would eliminate much of Southern and Southwestern Missouri but I am willing to commit some full weekends to this project.

My home stream is the Mineral Fork and if you would like to help monitor it that is also possible.

If you have a interest in doing this contact me (03041978@msn.com) and we will see if we can work something out.

Tim