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 Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction for Grand Lake Watershed, Oklahoma

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October 2005 Volunteer Monitoring Training

For the first time, as a part of the CLEAR GRAND project, a joint training session of the Oklahoma Water Watch and Blue Thumb was conducted in the Grand Lake area in October 2005.  Close to 20 new volunteers were trained to monitor both the lake and incoming streams that feed the lake.  Indoor activities (presentations and water analysis) were held at the Grand Lake Association Visitor Center.  Water Watch field demonstrations took place in boats provided by GRDA, launched from the Cherokee Queen boat docks.  Blue Thumb filed demonstrations took place on Honey Creek.

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Look through the pictures below to see what happened.

Ice breaker to start the training, outside the Grand Lake Association Visitor Center

Jean Lemmon, Blue Thumb Program, giving an introduction to stream monitoring on Honey Creek

Cheryl Cheadle, Blue Thumb Program, helping volunteers collect bugs in Honey Creek

Investigating the bugs collected from Honey Creek

Kim Shaw (purple hat), Blue Thumb Program, helping volunteers collect fish in Honey Creek

Taking a little break from fish collection to have a photo

Warmouth sunfish found in Honey Creek

A little darter found in Honey Creek

Karina Rivas-Careaga, Oklahoma Water Watch, teaching to take lake samples in Grand Lake

The other boat for the Water Watch monitoring demonstration on Grand Lake

Learning how to perform chemical analyses of water samples from Grand Lake

Indoor instruction by CLEAR GRAND coordinator, Kevin Gustavson

Indoor Water Watch instruction at the Grand Lake Association Visitor Center

Indoor environmental education at GLA Visitor Center

Sam Grasso, Delaware County Conservation District Educator, reports on his group exercise

 

We need your help!

If you are interested in volunteering to monitor the lake and/or streams…

 

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