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Our members organize and participate in field work like:
Stream cleanups
Stream cleanups
All kinds of junk gets stuck in our waterways. Bicycles, wheelbarrows, streetsigns - It all needs to be picked up! Volunteering for a stream cleanup is a great way to keep our watershed clean and safe.
Maintaining riparian buffers
Maintaining riparian buffers
Trees stabilize banks, increase percolation, and shade the water, creating a cooler environment for aquatic critters.
Monitoring stream health
Monitoring stream health
Stream health is judged in several ways:
A habitat assessment (is this a nice place for critters to live?)
A macroinvertebrate survey (who are the neighbors?)
Stream flow (depth profile and velocity)
Chemical measures that reflect substrate and other exposures like alkalinity and pH
Dissolved oxygen (aquatic creatures need this!)
Indicators of pollutants, for example by turbidity, salinity, and direct measurement of nitrates and phosphates
Have a look at our summary of all our testing from Sep 2022 through Dec2024
And here's a running summary of the stream chemistry testing during 2025
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