{"id":351,"date":"2011-02-16T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T08:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.auburn.edu\/aww\/?p=146"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:04:56","slug":"ozark-area-water-watchers-partner-to-track-watershed-bacteria-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/ozark-area-water-watchers-partner-to-track-watershed-bacteria-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozark-area water watchers partner to track watershed bacteria contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ozark  and the Choctawhatchee,   Pea and Yellow Rivers  Clean Water Partnership joined forces in supporting the Choctawhatchee  Riverkeeper. Inc. in bacteriological sampling efforts in the Hurricane Creek  Watershed. The creek runs from Ozark,   Alabama to its mouth at John  Hutto Park  in Newton,   Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Bacteriological sampling was  conducted in September 2010 at 9 sites in the  watershed according to the Alabama Water Watch (AWW) bacteriological  monitoring protocol. AWW trained and certified volunteer monitors, Lee Bradburn  and Amanda Saad, assisted Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper. Inc. in the sampling  effort. Lisa Harris, the CPYRCWP facilitator also assisted with the sampling.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Sampling results indicated that the  main source of fecal bacteria contamination was somewhere upstream of Harry Walker Road  and downstream of sampling points further upstream. Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper,  ADEM and the City of Ozark  will continue to work to attempt to identify the source or sources of  contamination.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Ozark and the Choctawhatchee, Pea and Yellow Rivers Clean Water Partnership joined forces in supporting the Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper. Inc. in bacteriological sampling efforts in the Hurricane Creek [&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-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaes.auburn.edu\/wrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}