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Long
Tom Watershed Council
751 South Danebo Ave.,
Eugene, OR. 97402
Dana
Erickson,
Watershed Coordinator/
Executive Director,
Ph: 541-683-6578
Cindy
Thieman,
Restoration & Monitoring
Program Director,
Ph: 541-683-2983
Amanda
Wilson,
Fiscal Manager,
Ph: 541-683-6949
Christy
Yost,
Outreach & Admin Specialist,
Ph: 541-683-6949
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Water
Quality Monitoring Program
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here to view Water Quality Measurements, Maps and the latest Report!
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The
Council’s water quality monitoring program has provided
invaluable information on watershed health since 1999. Our
program includes monthly monitoring at 18 sites around the
watershed, continuous temperature monitoring during the summer
at 34 stream sites, and a pilot study of the water quality
in surface runoff on private agricultural lands. Through these
programs, council volunteers and local farmers have collected
water quality data in many parts of the watershed that had
little or no regular monitoring previously.
At the 18 baseline sites volunteers and the monitoring coordinator
measure water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, conductivity,
E.coli, nutrients, and suspended solids. Water temperature
and E.coli show the most impairment across all sub-watersheds.
Our data show that many streams have temperatures that are
too warm for cutthroat trout anywhere from two weeks to a
few months out of the summer. |
Collecting Macroinvertebrates:
Our monitoring program also provides water quality and macroinvertebrate
data to evaluate the success of our restoration projects.
Here Cary Kerst examines a dragonfly larva from Amazon Creek. |
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The
agricultural pilot study involved eight area farmers who
evaluated the concentrations of nitrogen, phosphorus, and
sediment running off of their fields. Crop types included
mint, Christmas trees, annual and perennial ryegrass, fescue,
sugar beets, and corn. Samples of surface runoff during
winter rain events were analyzed for nitrate-nitrite, phosphate
and total suspended solids.
We use the data we collect to communicate watershed conditions
to Council members at meetings and in reports. We also share
this information with local, state, and federal agencies
who are using the data to better manage water resources
in the basin.
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Ken Coricello and Kyle Everett testing pH on a tributary
to Coyote Creek.
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Water quality data and information from our Watershed Assessment
provide key information for our Sub-watershed Enhancement
Program. In this program, we sit down with groups of landowners
at local residences, share the latest information, and share
ideas for actions to improve conditions in their sub-watershed.
Residents in the Ferguson Creek and Poodle Creek sub-watersheds
responded to the information by proposing projects on each
of their properties. Four of these are being implemented in
our 2003-05 group of projects funded by the Oregon Watershed
Enhancement Board. |
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