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Verde River Water Sentinels--Your Opportunity to
Help Protect the Verde River!
Mark your calendars for these Water Sentinels activities:
April 19, 2008 – clean up on Verde or Fossil Creek
April 26, 2008 - monitoring
May 10, 2008 – Bottom Deposits Monitoring Trip
June 14, 2008 – monitoring
August 9, 2008 - monitoring
October 11, 2008 – Bottom Deposits
December 13, 2008 – monitoring
We hope you'll join us!
For more information on the monitoring project and upcoming monitoring
and clean-up activities, please contact the Grand Canyon Chapter
office at (602) 253-8633 or sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org.
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| Volunteer Bruce Thompson dons waders to take water samples at Beasley Flat on the Verde River. |
The Grand Canyon Chapter received a Water Sentinels grant from the national Sierra Club to develop and support a volunteer water quality monitoring program for the upper portion of the Verde River. Water is a critical priority in Arizona, with regards to both its quantity and quality. The Verde River, nominated by the Sierra Club and designated by American Rivers as one of the ten most endangered rivers in the country in 2006, faces significant threats.
The Verde supplies a portion of the drinking water to Phoenix and other communities in central Arizona. The river is severely threatened by excessive groundwater pumping and several projects proposed by the communities of Prescott, Prescott Valley, and Chino Valley, plus a myriad of water quality concerns.
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| Wet feet? No problem! Volunteer JD Trebec wades
ankle-deep into the water monitoring project on the Verde River. |
Our Upper Verde Water Sentinels welcome additional volunteers to help protect this amazing river which provides important habitat for fish and wildlife as well as great recreational opportunities. The hope and expectation is that the knowledge and experience gained through this project will help people act to protect the Verde and other rivers in the state.
To make this program successful, we need volunteers who are willing to commit to attend one training session, at least three monitoring activities, and to assist with at least one streamside clean up. This project will provide a great opportunity to get your hands dirty and feet wet. Volunteers will measure stream flow and collect water samples for lab testing. Please join us in this fun and meaningful project!
For more information on the monitoring project and future monitoring and clean
up activities, please contact the Grand Canyon Chapter office at (602) 253-8633
or sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org.
 Learn
about the water quality in the Verde River by checking
out this chart that
tracks water-quality data for seven sites on the upper portion of the river(downloadable
PDF). You can also take a look at
the data used to create
the chart (downloadable PDF).
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