Water Quality Sampling Next Week

Mike Smith, the volunteer who takes care of water quality sampling along Sligo Creek sends the following message:

Our upper Sligo Creek monitoring team will be carrying out macroinvertebrate monitoring on Thursday July 16th starting at 6 p.m. We meet in Wheaton, at the first parking lot on Sligo Creek Parkway south of its intersection with University Boulevard. You can see a map of the meeting location at http://www.fosc.org/GoogleMaps/MIMonitor.htm. The site is monitored as part of the Audubon Naturalist Society's water quality program.

Numerous stream creatures such as damselflies, crane flies, scuds, and even mayflies have been found at this site since we began monitoring it in 2006.

See http://www.fosc.org/ANSMonitoring.htm for a record of findings.

Please come out if you are interested. There is also a team monitoring a site in lower Sligo Creek since last year. For more information about that site check out http://www.fosc.org/SaveOurStreams.htm.