Grants: Water Resources
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River Cleanup 2000
This project funded a river cleanup along 4 miles of the Chippewa River and along 2 miles of the Pine River in Midland County. Recent river inventories had detailed a need for a cleanup of unwanted items in the path of the river. Observations of tires, old appliances, trash cans, bottles, cans, and other rubbish were common in this area. The cleanup was be held in conjunction with Midland River Day on July 22, 2000.
Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring, Support & Training
The purpose of this project was to educate, train, and assist community and school watershed groups to conduct water quality testing in the watershed. The project spun off of two ongoing projects on Midland’s Sturgeon Creek and an effort being facilitated by Saginaw Public Schools. As part of this project, a watershed database and website was developed for housing existing data, and for making the data available to the general public. Steps were taken to standardize the procedures used by watershed groups to ensure quality and consistency in the results. The project was designed to be a model that SVSU can use throughout the Saginaw Basin.
Tittabawassee Watershed Management Plan Water Quality Analysis Phase 2 & Shoreline Reconnaissance
The Northern Tittabawassee River Task Force is proposing to complete a second year of water quality testing at critical sites in the along the Tittabawassee River in Gladwin County. Along with water sampling and in cooperation with the Gladwin County Health Department, the NTRTF will conduct a shoreline reconnaissance project that will look for “point source†discharges of sewage into the river. Finally a land use and development study will be completed in these areas that will provide information on historical land use, current land use, and proposed development. This report will serve as the basis for the reconnaissance effort. It is anticipated hat the health department will use this information in the promulgation of a sewage/septic inspection ordinance that will be implemented as property transfers take place within the watershed.
Water Tunnel
The Midland Conservation District built a “water tunnel” similar to the WIN-funded Earth Tunnel that was built in 1999. The Water Tunnel is a traveling display that will provide an inside and outside view of water quality, its sources and causes of impairments. The design of the tunnel demonstrates the sources and causes of pollutants created by improper land use practices. It also discusses how impairments can be improved. The Water Tunnel gives visitors a view of good and bad stream management techniques and the impact that both have on life forms in the streams and on the surrounding land.