CITIZEN STREAM

MONITOIRNG PROGRAM

10 years…and counting

Grounded in science

Rooted in partnership

POWERED BY VOLUNTEERS

The Stick? New Phosphorus Standards

(NR 102) for Wisconsin Surface Waters

75 ug/L .075 mg/L

…62 water bodies in the Rock River Basin do notmeet federal standard for phosphorus and total suspended solids.

The Carrot? A New Compliance Option

Adaptive Management

A collaborative approach

A watershed-based approach

An in-stream based measure of success

Yahara WINs

Working throughout the Yahara River

Watershed

Reductions needed by all!

Point and Non-Point!

How do we know if we are

succeeding?

4 USGS stations

MMSD Regular Nutrient Sampling

Edge of Field Monitoring

UW Student-Led Monitoring

WDNR

Citizen Water Quality Monitoring

Volunteer Stream Monitoring

Rock River Coalition – Yahara WINs

Volunteer Stream Monitoring Project

23 new WQ monitoring sites

7 New SitesNutrient Sampling

Volunteers collected

6 grab samples at each site once a

month from May to October

Total = 42 Samples

6 New SitesStatus and trends

Volunteers monitored

6 sites once a month from May to October

10 New SitesBaseline

Volunteers monitored

10 sites once a month from May to

October

Streams Currently Monitored:

Six Mile Creek

Dorn Creek

Willow Creek

Wingra Creek

Pheasant Branch Creek

Starkweather Creek

Door Creek

Swan Creek

Murphy Creek

Yahara River

AN INVITATION TO JOIN

2014Volunteer Stream

Monitoring Project

Depends on You

USGS