Peachtree/Nancy Creek River Rendezvous

Saturday, November 18, 2000

Purpose: Volunteers will collect water samples. Tests will include macrobiotic (invertebrate) sampling, pH. dissolved oxygen (DO), conductivity, turbidity, fecal coliform, temperature and others. For the first time, water quality samples will be collected from 50 or more pre-selected sites in the 84,000-acre Peachtree and Nancy Creeks Watershed during one day. Information will be used to refine a volunteer water monitoring plan in our communities.

Schedule

• 8:45-9:15 a.m. registration (no charge) at Lupton Hall, Oglethorpe University
• 9:15-9:30 a.m. welcome speeches
• 9:30-10 a.m. review of proper techniques for biological/chemical monitoring and for documenting stream conditions with photographs basic testing equipment will be distributed, including whirl packs 35 mm. Film will alsobe distributed for participants to use to photograph stream conditions (participants bring their own camera)
• 10:00 a.m. disperse to watershed sites for testing
• 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (+/-) return to Oglethorpe with film and with fecal coloriform samples for testing (participants are asked to bring a small cooler with which to transport the samples). Also socializing, refreshments, displays, demos.

Oglethorpe University: 4484 Peachtree Rd. NE Atlanta, GA 30319-2791 1-800-428-4484

Equipment Check:

• Wear sturdy, non-skid footware that you don't mind getting wet.
• An empty 35 mm camera for documenting the stream.
• Any testing Adopt-A-Stream equipment you may have.
• Rain gear, bug spray
• A small cooler for transporting samples

Contacts

• Jackie Echols (404-609-9517, drj399@cs.com
• Charlie Baube (404-364-8404,cbaube@facstaff.oglethorpe.edu)

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