Training, Water Quality Testing, Pictures 2018-09-16

Update 2018-10-24: First test kit complete! Now waiting for analysis equipment to arrive. For more details on recent background, see Valdosta (and other) wastewater.

Thanks to Julie Shutters of Golden Triangle R&D for coming down from Sylvester to Valdosta, GA to do Georgia Adopt-A-Stream training for WWALS.

(No, we haven’t forgotten about Florida. We’re just starting with the biggest problem area.)

Class

Julie Shutters, Ronnie Thomas, Erica McLelland, Shirley Kokidko, Joanne A. Wardell, Gretchen Quarterman, Bobby McKenzie, John S. Quarterman (hat)

Awareness, Data, Observations, Partnerships, Tools & Training

Why we’re doing this

Awareness, Data, Observations, Partnerships, Tools & Training.
ADOPT

What is a Watershed?
Ours is the Suwannee River Basin.

Nonpoint Source Pollution
The biggest problem in Georgia watersheds, especially ours.

One Mile Branch

One Mile Branch at Drexel Park.

Julie, banners, bridge, jsq

Get some water to test.

Julie, rope, Bobby, bucket

Bobby and the bucket

Joanne, Bobby, bucket, Julie

Erica, Ronnie, Aaron

Testing

Julie, jsq, Bobby, Joanne

Banners

Chemicals and banners

Careful counting

Measure

Photographing results

Really turning purple

All righty then

End Banners

Julie, Ronnie, Bobby, Joanne, Erica, Gretchen, Aaron

See also:

Thanks to Southern Georgia Regional Commission (SGRC) and Erica McLelland and Corey Hull for hosting.

Thanks to Bobby McKenzie, WWALS Testing Committee Chair, for organizing.

Thanks to Ronnie Thomas, Erica McLelland, Shirley Kokidko, Joanne A. Wardell, Gretchen Quarterman, Bobby McKenzie, Aaron Sirmson, and John S. Quarterman for taking the class.

Next: buy some equipment.

Then: do some testing.

Don’t worry. If you missed this class, there wil be more classes.

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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