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CLEAR GRAND Nonpoint Source Pollution Reduction for Grand Lake Watershed, Oklahoma "Land Grows Green, Water Stays Clean" |
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Future Trainings
There are no scheduled Blue Thumb trainings for the Grand Lake area. For more information about the Blue Thumb Program, click here! Grand Lake Water Watch has periodic trainings in Grove. For more information, call (918) 786-2289 and ask about Water Watch trainings. For more information, click here! Let us know if you would like to attend a training. Let us know what days work particularly well for you. Sometimes we can convince employers to allow you to attend the training with a group of co-workers on office time. Please let us know if you and several of your co-workers are interested in participating and we will contact your employer. Email now!
Recent Trainings For the first time, as a part of the CLEAR GRAND project, joint training sessions of the Oklahoma Water Watch and Blue Thumb were conducted in the Grand Lake area in October 2005 and 2006. To find out more about these trainings and to see photos of volunteers having fun, CLICK HERE! Grand Lake Water Watch has periodic trainings in Grove. Blue Thumb scheduled separate trainings in the area at the following places and times:
Time Commitments The largest time commitment is the initial training (see above). After you are trained, you typically spend about 2-3 hours per month volunteering. You and your group of fellow volunteers select a site on the lake or a local stream that you would like to monitor. You sample water in the lake or stream once a month and run chemical analyses to determine the water quality. Bug collections in stream sites take place twice a year (winter and summer) and fish collections in streams take place once every 5 years.
Who Can Volunteer?
Benefits to You There are many benefits to you to become a volunteer:
We need your help! If you are interested in volunteering to monitor the lake and/or streams…
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Volunteer Monitoring
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