#Fallwatermonitoring

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Fall 2020 Watershed Announcements

Help out your local watershed by participating in the following watershed events!

Clinton River Watershed Council:

September 18, 2020: Adopt-A-Stream Training 

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Information: (REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. EMAIL CONTACT@CRWC.ORG TO GET MEETING LINK)

September 19, 2020: Clinton Cleanup

Location: New Pathway along Clintonville Road. Park/Register at Harvestland Church (5848 Clintonville Rd.)

Time: 9:00am- 11:00am

Information: Please wear a mask and practice social distancing, to register email Derek Smith at dosmith@indtwp.com

September 20, 2020: Clinton Cleanup

Location: Meet in Eagles Landing parking lot off Livernois, South of Avon on the West Side of the street.

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Information: Choose to cleanup the trail or the river, waders will be provided. Email brian@redlotusyoga.com or register at the front desk to confirm attendance.

September 22, 2020: Adopt-A-Stream Training

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm 

Location: Center Line Parks & Rec 25355 Lawrence Ave, Center Line MI 48015

Information: (REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. EMAIL CONTACT@CRWC.ORG)

September 23, 2020: Weekly Clean

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Beaudette Park in Pontiac- 786 Orchard Lake Rd, Pontiac, MI 48341

Information: Every week, volunteers pick up trash, remove woody debris and perform in-water cleanups during the summer months called “Trash Runs” by paddling up and down the river.

September 26, 2020: Weekly Clean

Time: 9:00am-11:00pm

Location: Waterford Clinton River Canoe Launch near Elizabeth Lake and Airport Rd

Information: Bring your own Kayak. Register with David Lerner at DLerner@plunkettcooney.com

September 30, 2020: Weekly Clean

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: MacArthur Park in Mt. Clemens- 96 North River Road Park in YMCA parking lot

Information: Every week, volunteers pick up trash, remove woody debris and perform in-water cleanups during the summer months called “Trash Runs” by paddling up and down the river.

Huron River Watershed Council

September 10, 2020-October 31, 2020: Suds For The River Tour 2020

Information: When you purchase a Suds ticket to support HRWC, you will receive a passport to the Suds for the River Tour! Visit participating breweries and restaurants and get your passport stamped along the way. If you visit at least four participating locations by October 31, 2020, you could win cool prizes! Plus, your passport is your ticket to special discounts off brews and bites at participating locations. Alcohol purchase is not required.

How to Play: Purchase a Suds ticket for $35 or more and we will mail you a passport. Bring your passport when you visit the locations and ask the staff to stamp it. When you’re done, send us your passport to be entered in the drawing for prizes.

Details: Visit at least 4 participating locations to be entered to win one of three grand prize drawings.Passports must be signed or stamped by participating locations, and returned to HRWC, via email or mail by November 5 to qualify for grand prize drawings. (make sure your name and email is on the passport)Stay tuned for pop-up challenges to win sweet prizes!Food, non-alcoholic, and alcoholic beverages qualify towards grand prize entry.Don’t forget to get social by posting pics your tour using #Suds4RiverMail: HRWC, 1100 N. Main St., Ann Arbor, MI 48105 Email:Email a photo or scan of your passport(s) to agotelaere@hrwc.org  

Visit: https://www.hrwc.org/donate/suds/ to see participating breweries and restaurants. 

Friends of The Rouge

September 19, 2020: Bandhu Garden Planting Workshop

Time: 2:00pm-5:00pm

Location: 12285 Maine St, Hamtramck, MI 48212

Information:  Rain Garden Planting Workshop- Register at: https://forms.gle/hCgE3YUBDEEsQ44i8 Go to https://therouge.org/land-water-works-coalition/ for more info. Learn more about Bandhu Gardens: http://bandhugardens.com/

September 29, 2020: Master Rain Gardener Training Program

Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Location: Southfield Parks and Recreation, 26000 Evergreen Rd, Southfield, MI 48076

Information:  APPLY TODAY! Visit TheRouge.org/mrg

Cost:  Cost: $119 ($350 value; sliding scale scholarships available, minimum fee of $20) $175 for applications received after September 15thSubsidized rates applicable for residents of the Rouge River Watershed, Washtenaw County, Oakland County, or other MRG funding partners

Requirements: Participants must attend all five classes and plant or adopt a rain garden to earn their Master Rain Gardener certificate, garden sign, and t-shirt (yes, there are t-shirts!).

Questions: contact Matthew Bertrand

October 3, 2020: Pumpkinfest

Time: 11:00am-5:00pm

Location: MSU Tollgate Education Conference Center 28115 Meadowbrook Rd, Novi, MI 48377, USA

Information: FOTR staffing terrain model and display

Flint River Watershed Coalition

September 26, 2020-October 10, 2020: Fall Water Quality Monitoring

Information:  We will be holding our Fall Water Monitoring Window from September 26th to October 10th in Genesee and Lapeer counties and we need you to help us collect all that super important data - and the bugs! The bugs that live in our local rivers and streams (called benthics) tell us how their stream is doing. Is it healthy? Has there been pollution introduced to the stream? Has it improved? What IS that bug I found?All great questions, and ones we need answers to. Interested? We have over 35 sites across Genesee and Lapeer counties, so we are sure to have one near you. Message Jaime Welch or email her at jwelch@flintriver.org for more information or to sign up for a site today!

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Troy Students Participate in Fall River Monitoring

Niles Community High School Students visited Firefighters Park along the Rouge River on October 1st to identify the benthic macro-invertebrates of the stream. Students got in the river with nets to catch the stream insects in order to identify and determine their presence in the river.

Benthic macroinvertebrates (also known as "benthos") are small animals living among stones, logs, sediments and aquatic plants on the bottom of streams, rivers and lakes. They are large enough to see with the naked eye (macro) and have no backbone (invertebrate).

Macroinvertabrates provide an important food source in the stream and because they tolerate different stream conditions and levels of pollution, their presence or absence is used to indicate clean or polluted water.

If you would like to take a training course or volunteer in a fall bug hunt, please visit: https://therouge.org/bug-hunts/ for more information.

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Troy Students get Outdoors for Science!

This week, 8th Grade students from Larson Middle School got a chance to get hands on with science doing chemical, physical, and biological monitoring at the Gibson Drain on Larson Middle Schools property. The chemical monitoring consisted of testing the drain water for pH, nitrates, phosphates, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, temperature, and coliform bacteria. The physical monitoring consisted of measuring the velocity, erosion and structure of the drain. While the biological monitoring consisted of collecting macro invertebrates with nets, identifying them, and determining their abundance. Students wrote down their findings and were eager to get their hands dirty!