Brown Soil & Water

Conservation District 

AND

Natural Resources Conservation Service

706 South Main Street

Georgetown, OH 45121

Phone: 937-378-4424 *** Fax: 937-378-6710

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Mission Statement:

The mission of the Brown Soil & Water Conservation District is to provide the leadership in promoting and protecting the integrity of Brown County's soil, water and other natural resources through technical assistance and education.

AWARE '4' KIDS Water Monitoring Program

The Brown & Highland SWCD's along with the White Oak Creek Watershed Project sponsored

an Ohio Farm Bureau Grant.  Grant funds were utilized to purchase equipment for the district to do hands

monitoring with school and youth groups.  If you would like to request

a program in your school or organization please call the SWCD office

for more information.  Listed below are some examples of data

collected.

Site: Red Oak Creek at Cluxton Farms on US RT 68

                        Data Sheet

EXPERIMENT RESULT
Temperature Average 72 F
pH Average 8-9
Phosphate Average 1-2
Nitrate 0
Dissolved Oxygen 4ppm = 46
Turbidity 40 jtu

Macroinvertebrates collected:  stonefly, caddisfly, water penny, riffle beetle, mayfly, gilled snail, crayfish,

sowbug, scud, fishfly, damselfly, crane fly, aquatic worm, midge fly, leech, other snail

 

Click on the following links to see water quality data & pictures...

Fayetteville High School Envirothon Team 2007

Eastern Brown Middle School 2007

Western Brown High School Environmental Club 2007

Western Brown High School March 2007

Western Brown High School September 2007

Home School Students Water Monitoring 2007

 

 

Macroinvertebrate Water Monitoring Program

The Brown SWCD personnel and the White Oak Creek Watershed Coordinator both conduct

macroinvertebrate monitoring with school students. 

   

 

White Oak Creek Watershed Fish Community Assessment

Through the assistance of graduate student John Speath with Northern Kentucky University/ University of  Southern Mississippi, there was a comprehensive fish community assessment completed on White Oak Creek and its major tributaries.   With the financial assistance of Ohio EPA and a section 319 grant, this study serves as baseline data for fish species and population in the WOC Watershed.  Click below to view the study.

White Oak Creek Watershed Fish Community Assessment

 

 

 

 

White Oak Creek water monitoring through the local high schools

2000 - 2003 High School Student Water Monitoring Teams

All high school water monitoring teams were supplied with approx. $5,000 worth of equipment

to do classroom/field water monitoring.  The data was then to be passed on the SWCD for further

analysis and recorded for baseline data.  The group were to monitoring bi-monthly in the spring

and fall for 3 years.

Each group was to conduct 10 tests at each site:

  1. temperature

  2. pH

  3. alkalinity

  4. reactive phosphates

  5. total phosphates

  6. nitrates

  7. turbidity

  8. dissolved oxygen

  9. e-coli

  10. fecal coliform

The White Oak Creek Watershed Project has a completed & approved Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP)

2000 - 2003 High School Student Water Monitoring Averages

 
Site Averages Site
1		 Site
2		 Site
 3		 Site
4		 Site
5		 Site
6		 Site
7		 Site
8		 Site
10		 Site
11		 Site
13		 Site
15		 Site
16		 Site
17		 Site
18		 Site
20		 Stream
Averages
Air Temperature (°C) 17.45 18.41 16.25 10.85 18.87 19.32 18.85 17.94 13.15 12.18 14.44 19.33 20.48 10.89 12.60 13.00 15.88
Water Temp. (°C) 15.40 14.46 9.32 4.60 13.71 12.93 15.09 14.84 11.59 11.40 12.38 14.22 11.30 13.89 13.63 12.16 12.56
pH 8.48 8.48 8.40 8.42 8.03 7.88 8.34 8.09 7.36 7.31 8.13 8.09 7.80 8.18 7.99 7.96 8.06
Alkalinity
(mg/L CaCO3)		 209.36 220.25 156.17 216.25 201.26 176.61 151.42 129.59 158.44 153.72 175.90 328.91 262.27 178.36 183.91 111.43 188.37
Turbidity
(NTU)		 11.29 28.90 14.74 12.58 13.05 19.05 18.78 29.84 42.54 34.60 33.40 3.97 4.41 7.13 11.61 30.84 19.80
Reactive
Phosphates (mg/L)		 0.27 0.78 0.32 0.45 0.53 0.74 0.48 0.43 1.11 0.81 0.61 0.36 0.31 0.16 0.69 0.59 0.54
Total Phosphates
(mg/L)		 0.94 1.11 0.60 0.54 0.30 0.55 0.74 0.59 1.11 1.24       1.50 1.54   0.90
Total Nitrates
(mg/L)		 0.59 0.63 0.45 0.43 0.32 0.19 0.61 1.36 0.58 0.51 1.40 1.07 0.72 1.51 0.59 0.89 0.74
Total Coliform
(colonies/100mL)		 66.00 118.00 30048.33 245122.50 1278.35 1927.23 3983.33 2366.67 12577.78 43232.20 318.50 31.20 48.50 108031.67 11550.75 360.67 28816.35
E-Coli
(colonies/100mL)		 145.33 56.00 1076.67 48000.00 67.69 80.32 200.00 180.00 1886.00 4566.70 135.33 15.20 4.50 132.50 105.00 39.33 3543.16
Dissolved Oxygen
(mg/L)		 10.14 11.10 13.23 13.27 10.56 9.61 11.62 10.75 8.19 7.87 8.40 10.33 9.55 8.93 6.43 8.87 9.93

High School Water Monitoring Teams

  • Eastern Brown HS
  • Western Brown HS
  • Ripley HS
  • Lynchburg HS
  • Fayetteville HS
  • Georgetown HS
  • Hillsboro HS
  • White Oak HS

**To see all water monitoring data for each individual school you will need to view the APPENDIX of the Watershed Action Plan.

 

 

 

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