Pewaukee River Partnership Inc.

Pewaukee River Monitors, Dan Vircks and Richard Johnston, check the dissolved oxygen level in the River in observance of World Water Monitoring Day. Their results have been submitted to the Water Environment Federation website as a participant in the World Water Monitoring Day project. Since 2002 more that 80,000 people have participated in 50 countries.
Dan and Richard also monitored the River for temperature, turbidity and stream flow. In addition, an assessment of the macro invertebrates present in the water was done.

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A number of changes
have recently occurred
on the Pewaukee River Partnership Board of Directors.

Two members, Russ LaFayette (vice-president) and Donna Baldwin-Haut (director), resigned -- both due to "conflict of interest" issues: Russ because of job related guidelines and Donna because of her work as Trustee in the Village. Both will continue as members of PRP.
Russ and Donna will be missed on the Board for their willingness to lead our partnership.

The current list of Board members is as follows:

• President Mary Schwister
• Vice-President Charlie Shong
• Secretary Amy Jo Benson
• Treasurer John Haut
• Director Paul Evert
• Director Tom Beck
• Director Vacant - to be filled

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The Water Environment Federation has announced October 18, 2006 as the World Water Monitoring Day. This international outreach program seeks to build public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the word. Held annually, it encourages communities to perform basic monitoring tests of local rivers, streams and other water bodies. Since its inception in 2002, more than 80,000 people have participated in 50 countries.

The Pewaukee River Partnership will participate by sponsoring a river monitoring demonstration site at the Outfall behind Chocolate Factory in the Village of Pewaukee. Ray Schwabe, PRP Monitoring Coordinator, explained that the Partnership will have a display showing how the Pewaukee River and its tributaries are monitored each month for temperature, clarity, stream flow and dissolved oxygen. Members of the Pewaukee River Partnership will be available along the river bank to answer questions from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm on October 18th.

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During the past week the River Monitors completed their September testing. They monitor the River once a month from May to November for four indicators: temperature, dissolved oxygen, speed of the water and turbidity. During June and September they also assess two additional indicators: the condition of the habitat and inventory the presence of macro invertebrates.
The data tabulated is entered into the statewide database of All Rivers and Streams. This data will be used as a basis of future projects proposed by the Partnership to the public.

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