Volunteer
Monitoring - Overview |
The Waccamaw River Volunteer Monitoring
Project is volunteer-based program. Volunteers trained in using environmental
testing equipment sample ten sites along the whole length of the
river in the state of South Carolina. Volunteers work as a part of
one of the five teams that sample all the sites. Most of the coordination
of the team activity is done by the team itself and team captain
helps to keep all the members of the team in the loop. Volunteer
Monitoring Coordinator makes sure that all the quality assurance
and quality control procedures are being followed according to the
guidelines provided by United States Environmental Protection Agency
(US EPA).
Objectives
The objective of the project is to
initiate and stabilize a volunteer-based, water quality monitoring
program for the Waccamaw Watershed. This
program will fulfill four needs:
The following products will be
generated by this project during Year 1:
