Contra Costa Volunteer Creek Monitoring Program

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Contra Costa Volunteer Creek Monitoring
Program
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Volunteers Collect Data

(and lots of it!)

• 2,500 hours
• 75 sites
• 2005 - 2008
• 100 volunteers

• 7,400 hours
• 25 miles
• 2001-2007
• gt 600 volunteers

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Plenty of appropriate substrate
Bioassessment results?
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The fate of our data

• Watershed-scale questions local groups
• Arundo shapefiles Sonoma Ecology Center
• Team Arundo del Norte (http//teamarundo.org/)
• Drop structures CA Fish and Game
• Dumping areas, severe erosion, illicit
  discharges, large debris jams City officials

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CCWF/VCMP as a model

• Aquatic Invasive Species Early Detection Program
  San Francisco Estuary Project
• CA Citizen Water Quality Monitoring Program
  Coastal Commission, Monterey Bay National Marine
  Sanctuary, Moss Landing Marine Labs, Clean Water
  Team
• State Water Resources Control Boards SWAMP
  Roundtable
• Numerous academic, watershed, and regional groups

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This program would not be possiblewithout the
support of our volunteers!

• For more information, please visit
• ltwww.cocowaterweb.orggt
• Please contact Michelle at
• mlueb_at_cd.cccounty.us
• or [phone]