Provides information about statewide volunteer water quality monitoring and advocacy organization.
Kentucky Watershed Watch is a volunteer group of more than 1,500 individuals throughout the state of Kentucky who commit time and effort to monitoring water quality and advocating improvement in the state's waterways. Eight local watershed steering committees coordinate the overall organizational effort. These eight local basins coordinate activities statewide through the Inter-basin Coordinating Committee.
Watershed Watch provides training workshops in basic stream monitoring techniques throughout the state. The organization also periodically sponsors advanced training workshops in water quality monitoring, regulatory processes and watershed science.
Volunteers currently collect water quality samples from more than 500 monitoring sites across Kentucky. Data results are provided to all project participants, as well as any interested party. Watershed Watch also serves as a source of technical assistance for local watershed groups wanting to address issues raised by their monitoring and assessment efforts.
Each fall, "Watershed Protection Conferences" are held in each watershed, during which individuals, community organizations, scientific researchers and agency personnel all come together to discuss the condition of the waterways as revealed by annual monitoring. A Watershed Watch Strategic Plan has been developed.
Volunteers can contribute to Kentucky Watershed Watch Your by serving as a monitoring volunteer, an organizer, or as a trainer or expert advisor. To join, register on-line or call 1-800-928-0045, Ext 473. Project coordinators can also be contacted by e-mail .
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