Butler County Stream Team

Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring

Explore your watershed cartoon by artist Chris Rowlands

The Butler County Stream Team is a group of volunteers that collects, analyzes, and reports water quality data from many waterways in Butler County. We collect samples from streams and rivers in Butler County, Ohio and analyze them for these parameters: nitrates, total phosphorous, bacteria, conductivity, total dissolved solids, pH, turbidity.

The Stream Team exists through the collaborative effort of Butler County resident volunteers, the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Miami University, the Butler County Storm Water District, and the Butler Soil and Water Conservation District. Learn more about some of our volunteers on the volunteer spotlight page.

Goals:

The first goal of the Butler County Stream Team is to educate the residents about their local water quality issues, including storm water runoff and the pollution it brings to waterways in both rural and urban landscapes.
The second goal is to provide quality data that meets EPA reportable standards.

How you can participate:

It is easy to be a Stream Team Volunteer! Volunteers are needed to collect samples from local waterways, as well as to analyze those samples at the lab on the campus of Miami University. You can help even if you have 1 hour. No experience is required.

Canoe trip, October 1, 2011 Volunteer canoe outing on October 1, 2011. For more photos from this and other events, please visit our photos page.

Artwork by Chris Rowlands, local artist showing a person standing in a creek surrounded by wildlife

Join Us

...on the 2nd Saturday every month. Upcoming dates include:

Feb 11

Mar 10

Testing will be in the lab at Boyd Hall, on Western Dr, Oxford

Upcoming Events

We are planning some fun events for 2012 including a volunteer picnic, macroinvertebrate training, and canoe trips.

The first of these is World Wetlands Day on February 2. To celebrate this, Donna is going to host a brunch and wetland hike on her property, the Edge of the Farm Conservation Area on Feb 18 at 10am. RSVP if possible

Free Webinar Series

Hosted by the Butler County Storm Water District.
12 - 2 pm at the Engineers Office, 1921 Fairgrove Ave., Hamilton.

Retrofit This -- A guide to retrofitting the world?
Wed. Feb. 29th

Build This - Stormwater retrofit cnstruction issues
Wed. April 18th

Stream Restoration: Implementation you can take to the BANK
Wed. June 20th

Get the Dirt on Stormwater
Wed. Aug. 15th Leaving You Out In The Rain - Design and implementation of monitoring projects
Wed. Oct. 24th

Customizing Your Stormwater BMP Design for Specific Pollutants
Wed. Dec. 12th

For more information on these webinars or to register, call Bob Lentz at 785-4120.

Butler County Stream Team is a partnership between the community and

Storm Water District Butler Soil and Water Conservaton District Miami University: IES

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