Thank you to everyone who participated in and supported Check Your Watershed Day 2009!
5 Watersheds, 184 People, 520 Sites.....Tons of FUN!
A group photo from Check Your Watershed Day in Sixteen Mile Creek. Photo courtesy of Conservation Halton.
On Saturday July 18, 2009, 184 people were out simultaneously checking the health of 5 watersheds: Cold Creek, Graham Creek & West Lake Ontario tributaries, Nonquon River, Uxbridge Brook and Sixteen Mile Creek.
In total 1061 km2 were covered and 520 sites visited by 184 people!
This project would not have been possible without support from our
funders, partners, local supporters, and our dedicated volunteers!
There was an amazing volunteer turnout this year with 184 volunteers and agency staff out surveying streams on the same day. Old and new volunteers alike got into the action across the five watersheds, with great representation from the post-secondary student population.
Table 1. A breakdown of area covered and the number of people and sites visited for each watershed.
Overall, 520 sites across five watersheds were visited for Check Your Watershed Day 2009. In total, 176 sites were dry in total and 259 sites were wet. There were at least 99 perched culverts counted in this year’s Check Your Watershed Day (Table 2).
Table 2. Flow conditions of small streams sampled in Check Your Watershed Day 2009.
For more information on this year's Check Your Watershed Day, please download a copy of the event Summary Report. It covers in more detail the outcomes from the event including the overall turnout, sites sampled, as well as new components to this year's event and next steps to be taken with the data collected.
"Check Your Watershed Day" started in 2006 as a pilot project in Wilmot Creek. Since then, the project has expanded and taken place annually in watersheds across southern Ontario.
For more information on Check Your Watershed Day 2009, click here.
