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Volunteers receive instruction on how to use professional water quality monitoring instruments. |
Welcome to Clark County's volunteer monitoring program. Volunteers currently monitor hundreds of sites throughout the country, and we hope you will get involved.
Volunteers provide many important services, such as creating awareness of pollution problems, and collecting data for waters that have never been monitored.
Most importantly, volunteers increase the amount of water quality information available to resource managers so that they make well-informed decisions.
The field work that volunteers do is not only fun, but extremely important. Healthy streams are vital to aquatic animals and plants, for human recreation, and for our drinking water.
Although most of Clark County gets drinking water from wells, this ground water source is linked to surface water. Over time surface water can percolate down into the ground water and carry contamination with it. We all benefit from maintaining clean streams, rivers and lakes and monitoring these waterways is essential to their long-term management.
Volunteer Monitoring Program Overview (PDF - 216K)
