This Saturday, Water Sentinels from Northeast Ohio will once again join watershed professionals and volunteers from Cleveland Metroparks, Friends of Euclid Creek, and Northeast Ohio Sewer District in the third annual Day in the Life of Euclid Creek, a water-monitoring and community outreach event that takes place at various points along Euclid Creek.
The event will kick off at 9am near the headwaters of Euclid Creek at Acacia Reservation (Cedar Road entrance), with a water quality monitoring demonstration. Participants can also get a tour of current restoration activities at the park.
At 10:45am, the event will move to Greenwood Farm, 264 Richmond Road, Richmond Heights, for a fun hands-on habitat quality monitoring demonstration and macroinvertebrate count. A clean water investment tour will coincide with the monitoring demonstration.
At 12:30pm, join us at Wildwood Park in North Collinwood for an electrofishing demonstration and wetland restoration tour!
The monitoring presentations will highlight the differences in scientific rigor, accuracy, and precision between various levels of monitoring and data collection, from the Level 1 efforts of Sierra Club volunteers, which is helpful for educational purposes and to provide a general sense of water quality, to the Level 3 monitoring done by government agencies such as Ohio EPA and the Sewer District, which must withstand a much higher level of scrutiny. Participants should have a greater understanding not only of the jobs performed b
y watershed professionals, but of the contributions and responsibilities of every citizen when it comes to protecting our watersheds.
The event will culminate at 1:15pm with a lunch at Wildwood Park, to coincide with a casual presentation of the data collected during the day and a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Friends of Euclid Creek. Lunch will include pizza, cake, raffles, and fresh local vegetables provided by Community Greenhouse Partners. To reserve a spot for lunch, register today at the following link:
Please join us for this monitoring event, or if you can't make it, consider posting and sharing your own photos and insights from monitoring activities in your watershed, using the hashtag #WaterSentinels .