Butler County Stream Team: Citizen Science Water Monitoring Progam

Monitoring Map

Where do we collect samples from? See our map. Gray locations are no longer collected, others are colored by watershed. Our site ID names relate to the watershed and the distance from the mouth. Examples:

ICMS-23.95 is Indian Creek, main stem, 23.95 miles from the mouth.
FMCC_0.74 is Collins Creek in Four Mile Creek Watershed, 0.74 miles from where Collins enters Four Mile.

When you click on a site, the image that pops up shows roughly where the sample is collected.

2026 Volunteers

2026 Sampling Calendar

Sampling continues through Saturday, November 14. We do not samples in December, January, or Feruary.

Lab Volunteers

We use SignUpGenius to signup lab volunteers- just to make sure you don't drive to the lab needlessly. You will need to contact Lynn to receive the link for the parking pass for Miami.

Lab Training Videos

Thanks to Zak Schultz, one of our past awesome graduate students, we have training videos for each of the lab stations.

Newsletters

Regional Water Quality Newsletter - New

This four Southwest Ohio volunteer monitoring groups are joining together for a newsletter: Butler Stream Team, Rivers Unlimited, Mill Creek Alliance, and Saturday Stream Snapshot. When you sign up for our e-newsletter, you'll receive quarterly updates including: how your data gets used, data results, volunteer highlights, monitoring group updates, safety reminders, water quality news, and more! Newsletter sign up.