KRA Grant Applications Due November 30th!
Grant Announcement
Grant Application
Announcements
· KRWW 13th Annual Protection Conference: Saturday, January 23, 2010, Midway College, Piper Dining Hall, 9am - 4pm
· Visit the Bluegrass PRIDE website for information on upcoming environmental grants, including:
Community Grant Program (applications due January 8, awards announced March 2010)
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Education Grant Program (applications due May 7, awards announced July 2010)
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Educator Workshop Grant Program (applications due March 1, awards announced May 2010)
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Native Plant Beautification Grant (applications due December 4, awards announced January 8, 2010)
· The Kentucky Geological Survey recently released a new, detailed map of the Kentucky River Basin. The full-page map is available online, or a printed version can be purchased through the KGS Recent Publications page.
· Find Answers to KRWW Frequently Asked Questions by clicking here.
· Learn about upcoming meetings, sampling events, training sessions, and conferences on the KRWW Calendar.
· Register for volunteer activities, trainings, conferences, and other events via this form.
If you would like to donate to KRWW, please click below:
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Kentucky River Watershed Watch is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization formed in 1997 through the cooperation of the Sierra Club, the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, and the Division of Water's Water Watch program. Its membership focuses water quality monitoring and improvement efforts within the Kentucky River Basin. The basin extends over much of the central and eastern portions of the state and is home to approximately 710,000 Kentuckians. The watershed includes all or parts of 42 counties and drains over 7,000 square miles, with a tributary network of more than 15,000 miles.
For purposes of watershed management, the Kentucky River Basin has been subdivided into 97 smaller sub-basins and watersheds using the USGS Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) classification system. Further details about the individual watersheds are provided in the Kentucky River Basin Management Plan.
KRWW has received funding from the Kentucky River Authority, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, Bluegrass PRIDE, Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, Kentucky Division of Water, Sierra Club, Brown-Forman and the Virginia Environmental Endowment. It is also affiliated with the Kentucky Waterways Alliance. KRWW's goals include:
- providing current data on general water quality conditions to local stream-based organizations working to protect their watershed;
- providing widespread screening for potential water quality problems to resource management agencies;
- providing auxiliary information to assist resource management agencies in meeting specific operational and management objectives; and
- identifying specific impacts to water quality through targeted observations and measurements.
The KRWW Scientific Advisory Board developed a plan which describes water quality monitoring objectives, methods, parameters, quality assurance, and data management. |
