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Summer Quarterly Monitoring soon... come help! Join UOWN for our summer quarterly monitoring event Saturday, August 14th (rain or shine). The event starts at 9 a.m. at Ben Burton Park on Mitchell Bridge Road in Athens, and is free and open to everyone -- no experience necessary. After a brief orientation and some light breakfast fare (with coffee), trained leaders will take volunteers to various stream sites in the Athens area where you will monitor for biological and chemical water quality. Groups will return to Ben Burton Park by 12 or 1 p.m. to compile results. UOWN uses the information collected to track the health of our streams, and detect water quality problems. This is a great way to put in some outdoor volunteer time, learn about water quality testing, and see your local streams up close. We recommend sturdy waterproof footwear and clothes that you do not mind getting a little dirty. For more information, contact Elizabeth Little at elittleathens -AT- gmail.com Check out the Georgia Water Wire ... ...a blog edited by Ben Emanuel & April Ingle at Georgia River Network. The blog is updated every couple of days, and tracks news from around the state concerning water issues. Right now the ramifications from the recent Lake Lanier court decision are on everyone's mind, and the Water Wire should help those of us in the Oconee basin understand what the decision means for our watershed. Read it here. Winter issue of the Monitor released. Read UOWN's newsletter as a PDF (1 MB), and learn about plans for a new reservoir on Hard Labor Creek in Walton County, UOWN's recent floodplain restoration work at Trail Creek in Athens, etc...
Planned Epps Bridge Road development... UOWN has been following recent activity on the part of a developer and the Oconee County commission, toward the building of a large commercial development off of Epps Bridge Parkway, on the Clarke-Oconee county line. This shopping center, if constructed as planned, would impact upon a number of streams directly by piping them. The site also drains directly to McNutt Creek, an important tributary of the Oconee. Keep informed about this momentous project via Lee Becker's well-maintained blog, Oconee County Observations. Donate and become a member of UOWN today! Mission: The Upper Oconee Watershed is dedicated to protecting water resources and improving stream health in our watershed through community-based advocacy, monitoring, and education. UOWN is dedicated to promoting citizen awareness of local water resource issues and advocating sound watershed management practices. We seek opportunities to use our monitoring data to influence water resource policy and local land use decisions, including:
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Upper Oconee Watershed Network
P.O. Box 531
Athens, Georgia, USA 30603
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