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The Good Water Chapter of the Texas Master Naturalist program participates in the statewide citizen science water monitoring project, the Texas Stream Team.
Texas Stream Team is a statewide network of citizen scientists and supportive partners working together to gather information about water quality in our streams. Texas Stream Team is administered through a cooperative partnership between The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Texas Stream Team train Texans on how to collect water quality data, such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity in nearby rivers and lakes.
Thirty six (36) members of the Good Water Chapter have taken the training and been certified as Texas Water Quality Monitors. Twenty one (21 are actively monitory streams in Williamson County and one is monitoring the Salado Creek in Bell County. In Williamson County, Good Water members are monitoring 11 sites on the San Gabriel River and Brushy Creek water sheds.
Each month our members monitor and report pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, dissolved solids, and other indicators of water quality at their designated sites. That data is submitted to The Meadows Center to support academic research, inform conservation policy, and serve as a de facto early warning system for water quality events across Texas.
For more information about the Texas Stream Team go to: http://www.meadowscenter.txstate.edu/Service/TexasStreamTeam.html.
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