Human Waste at the Headwaters

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Johnson and Iowa County Watershed Coalition

• Human Waste at the Headwaters
• Of
• Clear Creek (Iowa Co.)

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• Gary Arner
• Kent Becher
• Angela Brown
• Michael Carr
• Jeff Chapman
• Jesse DiLorenzo
• Paula Francis
• Deidre Funk
• Joshua Gersten
• Caitlyn Gillespie
• John Gross
• Brandon Harland
• Ellen and Art Hartz
• John Hegarty
• Doug Herman
• Matt Holida
• Del Holland
• Bryce Jackman
• Steve Kalkhoff

• George Qiuo
• Kathy Ratliff
• Dan Schabilion
• Scout Troop 204 Ryan Aftrica, Byron Cominek,
  Thomas Coulter, Tommy Coulter, Bob and Max
  Wehrle, Shirley and Tim Woolums
• Scout Troop 207 Brad and Eric Ratliff
• Scout Troop 3331 Renee Ratliff
• Jerome Starke
• Lynette Seigley
• Lial Selzer
• Mary Skopec
• Brian Soenen
• LeAnn, Paul, and Ben Sommers
• Stephanie Surine
• Jason and Natalie Taylor
• Max and Adam Trimpe
• Steve Veysey
• Zac Wedemeyer
• Ross Wehrle
• West High School students

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• Iowas Citizen-Based Volunteer
• Water Quality Monitoring Program

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Snapshot Sampling

• Multiple sites throughout a geographic area
  (county or watershed) are sampled within a short
  period of time (e.g., three hours).
• Testing parameters vary depending on water
  quality issues/concerns in the area.
• Monitoring sites selected by local organizing
  committee.
• Frequency of monitoring varies.
• Variety of individuals participate in the
  sampling, including IOWATER volunteers, local
  teachers and students, residents in the
  watersheds, Scout Troops, general public.

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• Visual observations
• Water Odor
• Water Color
• Animals in the water above test site
• Tiles above test site
• Stream bank condition (left and right)
• Weather
• Other comments about the test site
• Temperature of the water
• Transparency
• Chemical
• pH
• Dissolved Oxygen
• Nitrite
• Nitrate
• Phosphate
• Chloride
• Two samples were collect to be tested by UHL
• Nutrients

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Snapshots of Johnson and Iowa Counties

• September 20, 2003 (fall, low-flow conditions)
• October 18, 2003 (World Water Monitoring Day)
• March 27, 2004 (spring, high-flow conditions)
• May 2004 (2x) May 15 (IOWATER spring snapshot)
  May 31 (spring, high-flow conditions)
• September 18, 2004 (fall, low-flow conditions)
• October 16, 2004 (World Water Monitoring Day
  fall, low-flow conditions)

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Clear Creek Watershed
Old Mans Creek Watershed
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The HeadwatersofClear Creek
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The Data
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Time Line

• 18-Sep-04 - Snapshot - Toilet paper in Junction
  box at CC00B
• 22-Sep-04 - Picture history of CC00B given to
  Iowa Co. Env. Engineer
• 27-Sep-04 - CC00B sampled by Iowa DNR Field
  Office 6 Iowa Co. Env. Engineer
• 28-Sep-04 Iowa Co. Env. Engineer talks with
  Dick Ahrens about location of tile line CC00B
• 29-Sep-04 Iowa Co. Env. Engineer called and
  discussed his meeting with Dick Ahrens to
  identify location of tile lines feeding CC00B
• 16-Oct-04 - Snapshot - Toilet paper in Junction
  box at CC00B
• 17-Nov-04 - First formal presentation about Head
  Waters of Clear Creek given by Lynette Seigley at
  Kent Park
• 2-Dec-04 - Contacted U.S. EPA about CC00B
• 22-Dec-04 - Asked DNR for results for samples
  collected by Iowa DNR Field Office 6 Iowa Co.
  Env. Engineer on 27-Sep-04.

• 20-Sep-03 - First Snapshot of Old Mans
  Creek/Clear Creek
• 18-Oct-03 - Watershed Snapshot
• 24-Jan-04 - First sampling of CC00B
• 19-Feb-04 - Formal presentation of snapshot data
  at 4th Annual Water Monitoring Conference, Ames,
  IA
• 27-Mar-04 - Snapshot
• 15-May-04 - Snapshot. Lynette called me (Dave)
  about retesting this site. Lynette and Mary had
  Toilet paper coming out of CC00BNorth and in the
  junction box (1mx.5m) and a long (10m) by .5m
  deposit of paper below the culvert. Slight sewage
  odor in the culvert, out of the wind.
• 15-May-04 - Snapshot - Toilet paper in Junction
  box at CC00B
• 26-May-04 - Presentation to Clear Creek Watershed
  Enhancement Board about Clear Creek Snapshot
• 31-May-04 - Snapshot - Toilet paper in Junction
  box at CC00B
• 18-Jul-04 - Snapshot - Toilet paper in Junction
  box at CC00B

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So in the meantime

• Whats going on at CC00B?

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