Project Logistics and Timetable

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Project Logistics and Timetable
Class Prep, Site Selection, Field Trips,
Reports, Sample delivery
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Participant Agreement Outlines
Project Activities (pull them out now! (please)

• Participant Agreement
• Your Name_________
• Contact Information
• _____________________
• Activity list
• ___Creek Visit
• __sending reports
• __PowerPoint
• __Take Sample
• Equipment checkout
• Monitoring schedule
• ___Site info
• ___Safety

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• Participant Agreement
• Your Name_________
• Contact Information
• _____________________
• Activity list
• ___Creek Visit
• __sending reports
• __PowerPoint
• __Take Sample
• Equipment checkout
• Monitoring schedule
• ___Site info
• ___Safety

Participant Agreement Fill both out Turn one
in (before you leave) Keep one as your
reminder. We will answer questions about them
as the workshop progresses.
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2002-2003 Major Events

• 1. Initial Field Visit
• As soon as you get back
• 2. Fecal Coliform Sample
• October 16 or 17
• 3. Web Report Due
• November 1
• 4. Spring Sampling
• First Week of April
• 5. Results Report on web
• Within two weeks of sampling

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Selecting your stream site

• Selection Criteria
• Convenience
• Safety
• Water to sample
• You get to pick!

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Identify your Site

• 1. Stream name from map
• 2. Location Description
• Correct!
• 50 meters upstream of Hwy 1533 bridge.
• 100 m Due South of Knott Central High School.
• NOT
• Out back of school
• near Flossy Mays barn at the big tree
• 3. Use Latitude and Longitude
• Use www.topozone.com for decimal degrees.

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Returning Teachers!Please keep same sampling
site from last year!

• 1. Staying put helps with data continuity!
• 2. Use same P001 Sample Number as last year.
• 3. If you dont remember your PCODE,
• We will look it up for you.
• 4. If you must move, we need to assign you a NEW
  PCODE Sample Number!

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Conduct Observations
1. Field Chemistry
2. Photographs
3. Fecal Coliform samples

4. Biological Assessments"
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Measurements-Observations

• Flow (0-5 scale)
• Rainfall
• Turbidity (0-3)

• Dissolved Oxygen
• pH
• Conductivity
• Temperature

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Photographic Record
1. A shot from the center of the stream pointing

up stream
showing
both banks
and the riffle
(if any)
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Photographic Record
3 Label
Stream Name
Clear Creek
each
photo
Sampling Site
Church's Grove Riffle Upstream
of Softley Farm in Franklin Co.
Description
Report 3a
4. Attach


to
Survey Team
Mary Carol Cooper
Alice
back
Howell
Oscar Gerelds Ralph Reiss
of
David Holt Robert Palmer
report
Date of Photo
4/26/99 1230pm
Form
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Full Contact Water Sport!
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Level 1. Field Identification
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Fecal Coliform Sample (Lab will analyze E. Coli)
Bacteria from intestines of warm blooded
animals (Humans, Livestock, Wildlife)

• 0-200 Colonies per 100ml Acceptable
• 200-1000 Colonies per 100ml Not Acceptable.

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Sample Collection Materials Will be mailed to you
1. Sterile Container 2. Instructions 3. Chain
of Custody Record
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Bacteria Sample Collection
Runners
Collection
900-1200 Noon
800-1000 AM
Team
5 hrs
Runner
Team
Team
Team
Runner
LAB
Team
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Samples must be kept immersed in ice (but not
frozen)
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Samples must be transmitted with Official Chain
Of Custody Records
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Samples must be delivered to labs within 5 hours
of collection!
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Getting your sample to the lab 1. A sample
runner will be assigned by PRIDE Staff for
your county 2. Talk to your sample runner prior
to the sampling event! (phone or E-mail) 3.
Runners will provide you with their pickup
schedule 4. Be sure to have sample and chain of
custody record ready when they arrive 5. If
you cannot meet with your runner you can make
your own delivery arrangements.
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Professional labs will analyze samples
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Lab Locations (Select one near you)