Six Mile Creek Volunteer Monitoring Partnership

 

 

Initiated in 2004 with funding from the four municipalities located in the Six Mile Creek watershed and the Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District, this volunteer monitoring partnership has gotten off to a fast start with complimentary sets of chemical and biological sampling events. In September and November, volunteers collected water samples from 13 locations and transported them to the CSI lab for certified analyses. On their own, volunteers collected and analyzed benthic macroinvertebrate (BMI, or aquatic insects) samples from six locations for a biological analysis of water quality.

 

To view water quality results across the Six Mile Creek watershed, click on Six Mile Creek Water Quality.

 

To view water quality results for individual sampling locations in the Six Mile Creek watershed, click on the map below.

 

For a summary of 2004 activities and findings, click on Six Mile Creek Volunteer Monitoring Partnership 2004 Final Report.

 

For an overview of 2005 monitoring season activities, click on Six Mile Creek Volunteer Monitoring Partnership 2005 proposal to municipalities..

 

To access raw monitoring data, click on Six Mile Creek raw chemical data and Six Mile Creek raw BMI data.