Project Name: |
Windward Oahu Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring
Program |
Start/End Date: |
January 1995 to April 1996 |
Contractor: |
Richard Brock
University of Hawaii - Sea Grant Extension Service
1000 Pope Rd., MSB Room 226
Honolulu, HI 96822
Phone: (808) 965-2859
Fax (808) 956-2858 |
Background/
Overview: |
Funds were provided for the establishment of a volunteer water
quality monitoring program in 1993-1994. Sea Grant Extension worked
on the first phase and wants to continue to expand the pilot program. |
Objectives/Goals: |
To increase public awareness and involvement such that communities
are committed to preserving, restoring, and protecting Hawaii's
waters, aquatic biota, and other coastal resources through educational
outreach and volunteer monitoring efforts. |
Methods Employed: |
• Continue monthly meetings of the Waimanalo-Kailua Volunteer
Program
• Continue the volunteer water quality fiend monitoring
• Carry out the wet period quality assurance/quality control program following
a heavy rainfall event using both volunteers and UH personnel
• Develop a series of topographical maps for the Kailua-Waimanalo area
depicting the locations of the streams, pertinent topographic features and human
infrastructure for field use
• Undertake a preliminary program of heavy metal/pesticide analysis sampling
the lower reaches of the 3 streams in the project |
Pollutants of Concern: |
Heavy metals and pesticides |
Watershed: |
Kaelepulu and Waimanalo Watersheds, island of
Oahu |
Deliverables: |
• Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Manual for Streams • Topographical
maps for the Kailua-Waimanalo area
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