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Long Tom Watershed Council
751 South Danebo Ave.
Eugene, OR 97402
Dana Dedrick
Watershed Coordinator/
Executive Director
(541) 683-6578
Amanda Wilson
Fiscal Manager
(541) 683-6949
Rob Hoshaw
Operations Manager
(541) 683-6949
Restoration Team
Cindy Thieman, Program Director
(541) 683-2983
Jed Kaul & Josh Harrison,
Restoration Technicians
(541) 683-6183
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Water Quality Monitoring Program
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Click 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 were implemented in our 2003-05 group of projects funded by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. |
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