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The San Bernard needs volunteers who have access to a dock on the river to become Texas Stream Team Certified Water Quality Monitors. Monitors produce quality-assured, usable information that government agencies, waste generators, and the public need to make environmentally sound decisions. To become a monitor, you complete a monitoring plan and go through three phases of training using a test kit that measures physical and chemical parameters in water.

 

Volunteers are asked to monitor their sites monthly at the same time of day each month, for example, monitoring the first Saturday of the month at 10:00 am. Maintaining a consistent monitoring time is crucial because the physical and chemical parameters fluctuate over a 24-hour period. Monitoring takes approximately one to two hours.

 

Phase I training is a hands-on instructional session covering monitoring methods in a classroom setting. This phase of training takes approximately 3 hours.

 

Phase II training provides the volunteers the opportunity to conduct the monitoring procedures in the field. Whenever possible, the water body used for Phase II testing will be similar to the sites the volunteers will eventually monitor.

The volunteers conduct the tests with limited assistance of the Trainer. Phase II training takes approximately 3 hours.
Phase I and II trainings usually happen on the same day.

Phase III training is conducted as a one-on-one session with a Trainer and each volunteer or group at their monitoring site.  This session usually takes approximately 3 hours. When the volunteer has successfully completed the three training sessions and the training packet is completed and signed, the volunteer is then considered a Texas Stream Team Certified Water Quality Monitor.

 

Individuals or groups interesting in becoming involved in the Texas Stream Team Volunteer Monitoring Program should contact:

 

Kristi Corse
Texas Stream Team Volunteer Monitoring CoordinatorHouston-Galveston Area Council
Phone: 832 681-2564
Email: kristi.corse@h-gac.com