Year of Clean WaterCelebration…
…30 Years of successes
• Recommitment……To work yet to be completed
• Educate the public on water quality issues.
• Encourage & strengthen partnerships between citizens, private org’s & government agencies.
• Celebrate accomplishments of the CWA
• Identify work that still needs to be done.
Resolutions
• Presidential Year of Clean Water Proclamation
• Joint Congressional Resolution designating 2002 as the Year of Clean Water
• Year of Clean Water Proclamations by Governors of at least 15 States.
• State based educational and celebratory events
NWMD Workgroup
• Chaired by YOCW / ASWIPCA• US EPA • USGS• NWQMC • Washington State Dept Ecology• Pennsylvania DEP• Texas Watch Program • URI Watershed Watch• Oklahoma Water Res. Board • Earthforce• EASI • Earthday Network • California Water Res. Board
Four Tiers of Monitoring spanningOctober 12th to 27th
• Federal agencies
• State agencies
• Volunteer monitoring progs
All target their usual monitoring to that time span,
Using their equipment and methodologies
• Members of the public – YOCW monitoring kit
• Water Temperature
• pH
• Turbidity/Clarity
• Dissolved Oxygen
Kit cost $17.75 - 50 pH, DO testsOrder at: www.yearofcleanwater.org
Registration, Data Entry
• All web based
• www.yearofcleanwater.org(use Internet Explorer)
• Registration required prior to monitoring– Monitor & site info– Helpful to know lat/long– Other planned activities
• Shoreside cleanups• Surveys/Habitat Assessments• Water Festivals
• Database 10/1/02 -12/5/02
4100 Sites Registered*
• 66% (~2700 sites) data/info logged as of 11/15/02
• 80,000 – 85,000 participants, maybe as high as 100,000
• <2% entered supplementary data
* USGS, EASI data not included
Success Measured in Many Ways
• Kansas City – week-long series of events– Involved thousands of folks– Recharged lagging partnerships
• Monterey Bay Sanctuary Fndn– Monitoring coast from Oregon to
Mexico– 2370 folks at 280 sites
• SC – galvanized lake community to monitor “ignored“ lake
• RI – 4 tiers of events– Reception-CWA/30, RIDEM/25,
longtime volunteer monitors honored– Monitoring workshop– Travelling photo exhibit
USGS: Outstanding in the Field
• 67 USGS-related events– 5600 non-USGS attendees– 36 covered by news media
• 28 TV/cable• 6 radio
– 27 had “dignitaries” in attendence
• Response from District Chiefs– 47 positive– 1 negative
Concerns
• Lack of involvement by agencies other than EPA, USGS
• Time of year problematic• Limited parameters• Concerns with the kit• Database difficulties
– Easiest for single site monitoring– No batch entry– Difficulty with locating sites
• Poor map• Lat/long conversions tedious
• Will the data be used?