The Licking River Watershed Watch is hosting two workshops for interested volunteers.

The Licking River Watershed Watch (LRWW) is a volunteer citizen-based organization. The volunteers monitor streams throughout the watershed, conducting synoptic sampling three times each year, during high flow (spring), normal flow (summer), and low flow (fall) conditions. A variety of data has been collected since 1998. This data includes dissolved oxygen, pH, conductivity, temperature, nutrients, fecal coliform (including E. coli), flow conditions, habitat assessments, and biological macroinvertebrarte assessments. Water quality information is used by the state and others to improve the health of streams.

Interested volunteers will be trained to conduct water quality monitoring. Two workshops have been scheduled for April 10, 2010. The workshop locations are Bourbon County Extension Office (9:30 am to 1:30 pm) in Paris and Boone County Extension Office in Burlington.  To become a volunteer and to learn more about LRWW go to http://www.lrww.org.