DISCOVER OUR NIANGUA RIVERS DAY!

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007.

 

ATTENTION:  All Stream Teams and Stream Enthusiasts!  In coordination with World Water Monitoring Day, come monitor the Niangua River with us.

 

Let’s spend the morning collecting water quality data and then celebrate our good work with a free picnic at Bennett Spring State Park, hosted by Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance (LOWA).

This is a fantastic opportunity to meet lots of great people, network with other stream teams, find a stream team that needs your help, learn about the Missouri Stream Team Program and LOWA, and participate in a water quality monitoring event,             even if you never have before.  Stream teams can check their equipment and drop off their waste water.  There will be door prizes at the picnic and something for everyone at the Discover our Niangua Rivers Day.

 

9:00 am:  Gather at Picnic Shelter B in Bennett Spring State Park (near Lebanon, MO, off of Hwy 64).  Trained Stream Team Monitors will be matched up with interested stream enthusiasts and they will either go out to that Stream Team’s site or be assigned a site along the Niangua River to monitor.

• Little Niangua Stream Teams may want to monitor their site that morning and then come down to Bennett Spring for the picnic.
• Niangua Stream Teams whose sites are fairly distant from Bennett Spring may also want to monitor their site before coming out to Bennett Spring for the picnic.
• Any Stream Team may monitor their site before October 13^th, and then bring their data out to Bennett Spring State Park and guide other stream enthusiasts through a water quality monitoring event at a site along the Niangua River (or just monitor) and then join us for the picnic!

(Monitoring during this event will be limited to the chemical data; however, stream teams may certainly bring the biological data with them to submit, as well.)

 

Please contact either:

Þ    Priscilla Stotts, Stream Team Coordinator, Water Protection Program, at (573) 526-3406 or email at priscilla.stotts@dnr.mo.gov   or

Þ    Larry Webb, Ha Ha Tonka Park Naturalist, at (573) 346-2986 or email at ha.ha.tonka.state.park@dnr.mo.gov

Þ    BY SEPT. 30^TH, please.

And, please be ready to provide them with the following information:  a contact person’s name, phone number(s), and email (if available); an approximate head count for your group; and, please tell us whether you will be wanting to join a trained monitor, monitor your own site and then come down, go out and monitor your own site and then return for the picnic, or be available as a trained monitor to take a group of stream enthusiasts to a monitoring site.

We really need this information so that we can have plenty of food and prizes!  Thanks.  We sure hope to hear from all of you!