April 25 Water Monitor Training is Postponed!!

Yes. Mother Nature decided to bless us with her presence today. She is providing much needed rain to our watershed.

Therefore, we will not be having the water monitor training at Riverview Park as planned. My, my but it is nasty out there.

Today's training in POSTPONED until next Sunday, May 2nd, same time, same place. The CWTU Riverkeeper Committee wants to provide a safe, relaxing water monitoring training. So please plan to be there next week. Thank you for your interest!

Everything's Up-To-Date with WAV Water Monitoring Kits

WHOOPS! ATTN: Team Leaders with HACH Kits!

Hello everyone: This week we received a new shipment of chemicals for the HACH Dissolved Oxygen Kits. These chemicals are new DO1, DO2 Packets and DO3 “pillows.” And a 3 500 ml bottles of Sodium Thiosulfate to replace the Sodium Thiosulfate that you have in the 3 ml bottles in your kits.

All the essential dissolved oxygen chemicals have expired within the last few months or so. So for the 2010 monitoring season, you’ll want to have these chemicals before heading out into the field for your water monitoring activities with your team members.

Yes, if you look in your existing Hach Kits, you’ll see these same items with EXPIRATION Dates--all in the past. If that isn’t true, leave a comment here or send an email because we want to be sure we’re measuring the same things as you.

So, when to exchange the ‘old’ for the ‘new?’

We’ll be collecting the old chemicals and sending them back to the UW Extension in Madison for proper disposal. (Please Don’t dump them on the ground or into the water!)

We’ll exchange them at the Training Session at Riverside Park on the East Side of Waupaca, 2 PM on SUNDAY, the 25th. We’ll try to be there early if you want to take care of this prior to the training session.

Lastly, if you notice other issues that need to be resolved please contact Central Wisconsin Riverkeepers so all can be ready for the field work that begins shortly.

Thank you for being an important of our WAV Water Monitoring efforts this year.

For the Committee, The Streamer

On the Water Here and Elsewhere

Looking back over my shoulder, what a busy month March!

It started feeling like a well-traveled tennis shoe, the heavy, black treads wearing thin. And I haven’t been that far from home, really. I’m going to share these travels with you in this blog.

Here are a few articles:

If you have the time and interest, follow the links to these articles, click on the names of the places below. These links will take you to some interesting reading on water issues; good reading on a rainy day.

California Florida Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania Midwest

All of them give you an insight that water is important to all of us.

Hope you’re getting outside to enjoy our early summer weather. Isn’t it unusual? Many good reports from friends who fish. And from others who don’t, too. Please leave comments below if you so desire.