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Water
Quality Monitoring Program Expands
In spite of recent storms, at the turn of the
New Year the Environmental Department installed a permanent
housing at Indian Island for long-term deployment of a water
quality monitoring sonde.
The site of the housing is on one of the
pilings just south of the Tribe’s Brownfields cleanup site on
the midden. The
piling is situated at the edge of Humboldt Bay’s Middle
Channel, and is an ideal spot to monitor water quality.
With long-term deployment, the data-logging sonde can
remain safely submerged for up to one month at a time (the sonde
still needs to be regularly cleaned and calibrated), logging
water samples every 15 minutes.
This information, collected throughout the tidal cycles,
will give a very clear picture of water quality in regards to
physical parameters such as pH, temperature, turbidity,
salinity, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen – all factors in
determining whether the Bay is supporting its natural functions,
and its human uses.
Environmental Education Schedule
February 2nd
Garden
workday-Weed the garlic and onions and tend compost
February 3rd
Stargazing
7-8 pm
February 9th
Environmental
Education video 3:30-5:00 pm
February 16th
No
Environmental Education due to Indian Island workday
February 23rd
Bluff walk 3:30-5:00 pm-Learn about erosion and native grasses
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