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Education Grant Recipient:
Butte Environmental Council

Program: Watershed Explorations
Funding: $8,000

The Butte Environmental Council (BEC) has received a grant from the Sacramento River Watershed Program (SRWP) to enhance water quality monitoring efforts in Butte County tributaries. BEC will be working with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Watershed Education Project (WEP) in Butte County to schedule and implement training of volunteers and continue the ongoing sampling of the local streams. Local conservation, education, and watershed groups will be invited to participate in these activities. In addition, BEC will use grant funds to promote watershed and water quality awareness in Butte County by providing community members with educational resources, monitoring training, and monitoring events. This grant will complement funding received by WEP last year to train teachers, students, and parent volunteers.

Educational Resources

Funds will be used to expand the existing water quality resource libraries, which include monitoring equipment and curriculum resource materials. Equipment to be added includes: IDEX fecal coliform kit, surveying equipment, densiometer, conductivity meter, field kit supplies, dissection scope, and aquatic insect nets. This equipment is available on a loan basis to project participants and the public.

Training

Grant funds will be used to train BEC members, more regional K-12 teachers, and interested community members in monitoring methods by hosting two Citizen’s Monitoring Training events with the assistance of WEP and SWRCB. Training events will provide teachers and community members with knowledge of sampling protocols, which will be utilized in future monitoring events.

Monitoring and Sharing of Data

BEC will work with the WEP and City of Chico to establish monitoring sites, as well as work with landowners to identify potential monitoring sites on private lands. There will be four scheduled monitoring events in total: two in the fall months and two in the spring.

The monitoring data will be reviewed for quality, and then released through the SWRCB, Regional Board, and local groups. In addition, information will be distributed to the regional public at BEC’s 23rd Annual Endangered Species Faire in May 2002. A project information booth complete with illustrative and interactive displays will be developed for this and future events.