{"id":226,"date":"2011-12-01T05:21:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=226"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:05:36","slug":"huntsville-water-monitoring-workshop-one-of-largest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/huntsville-water-monitoring-workshop-one-of-largest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville water monitoring workshop \u2013 one of largest ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of  dedicated area residents dipped tubes and collection bottles into the Indian  Creek Canal in downtown Huntsville to test an array of water chemistry  parameters on November 19th 2011 (<a href=\"http:\/\/photos.al.com\/huntsville-times\/2011\/11\/water_monitoring_6.html\">click here for Huntsville Time  blog article<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Trainers from  Alabama Water Watch (AWW) and the Flint River Conservation Association (FRCA)  hosted one of AWW&rsquo;s largest workshops ever,   with 33 attendees. Participants included  professional agency folks, teachers, students, a couple of spelunkers, and  retired folks. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/huntsvillewkshop2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" hspace=\"80\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the  classroom portion of the six-hour Water Chemistry workshop, participants  learned about Alabama Water Watch, its mission, vision and goals, and an  overview of the water environment, pollution and water quality standards, how  to develop a water monitoring plan, and how to conduct the six water chemistry  tests included in the AWW water test kit. Tests include temperature, pH,  alkalinity, hardness, turbidity and dissolved oxygen. Secchi disk depth, a  measure of water clarity in lakes and ponds, was also demonstrated. <\/p>\n<p>After lunch, the trainees conducted tested the water of Indian  Creek Canal. AWW trainers stressed  following the protocols in the AWW Water Chemistry Monitoring manual, doing the  tests correctly, and conducting consistent monitoring (usually once a month)  over the long haul to detect trends and be able to see if water quality is  getting better or getting worse.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/12\/huntsvillewkshop1.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"80\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The diversity in  trainees exemplified the many different reasons why folks monitor water and the  diversity in the many ways that AWW water data are put into positive action,  such as environmental education, outreach, waterbody conservation\/ restoration,  environmental advocacy\/influencing water policy. This group of enthusiastic  volunteer monitors will be a big shot in the arm to watershed stewardship in  the Huntsville  area!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of dedicated area residents dipped tubes and collection bottles into the Indian Creek Canal in downtown Huntsville to test an array of water chemistry parameters on November 19th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7738,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/7738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}