Saturday, August 26 turned out to be a beautiful day for the first field trip for the 2023 Basic Training Class. I was delighted to see about 20 people managed to find their way to the new testing site along the creek. Heavy rains had totally washed out access to the old testing location.
I gave a quick run through the Citizen Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM) protocol. Trainees took air and water temps, measured pH and took a water sample for E.coli testing. Note the colorful results from the water sample. After discussion with Krista Hodges at DRBA, we settled on only 2 navy or purple colonies of E. coli.
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| Photo by Kathy Fell - Creek E.coli test results |
Wayne Kirkpatrick then gave his excellent talk on Macroinvertebrates. Four teams took nets to the creek and collected samples.
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| Photo by Kathy Fell: Wayne gives a lesson in how to collect macroinvertebrates |
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| Photo by Kathy Fell: Agitating the creek bottom |
200 bugs are required for an accurate assessment, but we only found and identified the species for about 50.
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| Photo by Kathy Fell: Sorting through the sample |
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| Photo by Kathy Fell: So many tiny bugs..... |
I think everyone enjoyed the morning. I surely did!
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