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2011 Field Data Presentation and Triathlon

2011 Field Data Presentation and Triathlon. Programs Adopt-A-Stream Bioreserve Water Quality Monitoring. Adopt-A-Stream. 1) Engaging and teaching residents through experiential learning. 2 ) Collecting data on our streams to assist in proper watershed management.

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2011 Field Data Presentation and Triathlon

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  1. 2011 Field Data Presentation and Triathlon

  2. Programs • Adopt-A-Stream • Bioreserve • Water Quality Monitoring

  3. Adopt-A-Stream 1) Engaging and teaching residents through experiential learning. 2 ) Collecting data on our streams to assist in proper watershed management.

  4. Adopt-A-Stream Parameters • Stream temperature • Stream habitat • Benthic macroinvertebrates

  5. Summer Temperature • 13 participants • Attrition: 2 thermometers gone to the big equipment shed in the sky • Attrition: 0 volunteers lost • 12 sites fully monitored • Average Maximum: 76.8°F • Average Minimum: 66.3°F Yee-haw! I feel great! Goodbye… cruel world…

  6. What a difference a dam makes!! Average Min: 57° F Average Max: 69° F Boyden Creek: Delhi Road (upstream) Huron River Drive (downstream) Average Min: 75° F Average Max: 86° F

  7. Stream Habitat

  8. What Do We Measure? • Stream transects (pebble count, depths) • Stream width (active edge and water’s edge) • Number of pools, riffles, and their lengths

  9. What Do We Assess? (judgment calls!) • % of stable habitat • Embeddedness • Bank stability • % bare banks • Plant abundance in stream and banks • Riparian corridor width • Bank angles • In-stream plant abundance

  10. Stream Habitat 2011 • 11 sites assessed (see table) • 40 volunteers • For all 70 sites (based on most recent assessment) • Average: 65 of a possible 100 • Best:87 (Pettibone Creek @ Livingston Rd, North of Milford) • Worst: 44 (Millers Creek at Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor) • Theoretical Worst: Concrete pipe full of clay in downtown New York City

  11. Site Highlights Chilson Creek @ Chilson Drive DEQ Score: 80/100 • Variety of pools, riffles, and bends • Stable hydrology • Stable banks • Wide and healthy riparian zone • Undisturbed channel • High amount of sand holds the score back a bit (some human-caused, a lot natural)

  12. Site Highlights Willow Run – new in 2011 • Vegetated, stable banks and wide riparian zone • High amounts of sand and fine sediment, with little rock or gravel • Uniform habitat - mostly straight flat water • Downstream of dams that trap nasty assortment of toxic pollutants • Very poor insect community DEQ Score: 57/100

  13. Stonefly Search and River Roundups! Half of the January 2011 Stonefly Search Group

  14. In 2011… • 411 Volunteers • 3,000 Volunteer Hours • 124 samples taken from 70 stream locations • For details about sites, www.hrwc.org or ask Paul

  15. The Good, the Bad, and the Scary Three stories of River Roundup data Odontoceridae – One recorded location in the Lower Peninsula… found by us on the Huron River in Indian Springs Metropark in Fall EXTREMELY SENSITIVE – Only found in the most pristine waters Last seen at this location: 2007 The good!

  16. The Bad: Davis Creek Three stories of River Roundup data Doane Road Pontiac Trail Doane Road Pontiac Trail Walker Creek- 8 Mile Silver Lake Road

  17. The Scary Three stories of River Roundup data MONSTER radioactive predaceous diving beetle of doom!! Watch your feet At Mill Creek @ Fletcher Road Normal predaceous diving beetle

  18. How are the data used? • Volunteers are the “eyes on the river”!Reporting immediate problems • Allows for tracking long-term trends • Report in watershed management plans to prioritize restoration and protection needs • Scientific basis for advocating local protection policies

  19. Questions?

  20. Bioreserve Project ASSESSANDPROTECTthe watershed’s natural areas Direct limited funds to STRATEGIC LAND PROTECTION and restoration Establish PARTNERSHIPS to direct focus on most important natural areas for the Huron’s health

  21. Bioreserve Parameters • Wetlands • Forests • Grasslands

  22. Assess and Protect • 180 people trained • 213 properties assessed • 674 ecosystems assessed • 112 acres of land protected (2 properties) Photo: Ann Arbor NAP

  23. Partnerships

  24. “Strategery” Focus preservation decisions for all watershed Conservancies, Greenbelt, Washtenaw County, Scio, Ann Arbor, Webster Townships Assess existing protected properties for Livingston, Legacy and Southeast MI conservancies, University of Michigan, HCMA Provide conservation planning and GIS support for Southeast MI and Livingston conservancies Photo: Ann Arbor NAP

  25. Flickr Photo Stream Over 200 plants (500 to go!) Photos: Ann Arbor NAP

  26. 2011 Highlights 37 volunteers 55 properties assessed 4 properties working on conservation easements/ donations

  27. Bioreserve Field Assessments 2008 - 2011

  28. Field Assessments Webster Township, Washtenaw County

  29. The Best Sites = highest scoring Bioreserve sites

  30. Wetland Highlights Lyndon, 282 Detroit Board of Education: Partnering with Legacy for Permanent Preservation Sharon, 303 Meyers: adjacent to Sharon Hollow Preserve Sylvan, 585 Brooks: our own Dave Brooks Webster, 211 UMich: Mud Lake Bog Sharon, 576 Irwin: MNFI preserve for Karner Blue Butterfly Sharon, 582 Mann: Washtenaw County interested in parcel Milford, 46 Gasior: Six Rivers negotiating with adjacent land owners

  31. Forest Highlights Green Oak, 1617 SMLCNichwaugh Lake Superior, 493 SMLC LeFurgeWoods SMLC will use assessments for baseline reports Webster, 518 Nordblom Existing Legacy Land Conservancy easement

  32. Grassland Highlights Superior, 481 SuperiorTwp: Cherry Hill Preserve Very few grasslands!

  33. Thank You All!

  34. Questions?

  35. Water Quality Monitoring Program Collect water quality information from tributaries to the Huron River to evaluate sources of problems and measure the degree of management success

  36. Outline • What was measured? • Where? • Important results • How are the results being used? • What’s next?

  37. What was measured in 2011? • 46 volunteers – THANKS! • 325 sample sets collected • Nutrients (Phosphorus, Nitrogen) • Sediments (Total Suspended Solids) • Bacteria (E. coli) • Other (Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Temperature, Conductivity) • 65 flow measures • 80 investigative samples • 8 storm samples

  38. 33 sites overall • 19 new sites added 2010-11 • 17 creeks, 3 river sites Existing sites New sites

  39. Phosphorus (TP) in Middle Huron

  40. TP Results 1995 2003-06 2008-11 Huron River City of Ann Arbor Ford Lake Belleville Lake

  41. TP Change by Site Ann Arbor [1]Two-sample T-tests, assuming unequal variances were run on LN-transformed TP data for the time periods indicated.

  42. TP in Livingston County(mg/l) South Ore South Ore 2010 2011 Woodruff 2010 2011 Chilson 2010 2011 2010 2011 Huron River Huron River Davis 2010 2011 2008 2009 2010 2011 2008 2009 2010 2011

  43. TP Loading Estimates

  44. Sediments (TSS) in Livingston County(mg/l)

  45. Sediments (TSS) in Middle Huron (combined)

  46. TP-TSS Relationship

  47. E. coli in Middle Huron

  48. Conductivity in Middle Huron

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