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Water Quality Monitoring Land Use Conservation

About the program

What volunteers do?

Who sees the results?

What commitments do volunteer citizen monitors make?

What do the tests mean?

  • Water temperature
  • Water pH
  • Dissolved Oxygen
  • Water Clarity

Who can volunteer?

Map showing monitoring sites for Friends of Stafford Creeks

List showing monitoring sites for Friends of Stafford Creeks

Learn about the Clean Water Act.

Look at a map and list of Stafford's polluted waters or as Department of Environmental Quality calls them, "impaired streams".

Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) searcher. Learn about these important grasses that live in Stafford's waters.

 

It is what we do on the land that impacts water quality. That is because water flows downhill and every "watershed" has high points that flow to "low points" carrying pollutants. It is not only about the configuration of the land but also about the number of people on the land. Our land use policy must be sustainable from a environmental and financial perspective. Here are two fiscal basics.

1. Residential development does not pay for itself. Learn more.

2. Your elected Board of Supervisors has the authority to limit the number of residential units. Learn more.

  • The tax assessment of a residential property must be $722,000 in order for that property to cover its costs.

Friends of Stafford Creeks supports the acquisition of Crow's Nest. Read more here. To see some photos of Crow's Nest plants, click here.

Spending taxpayer dollars to purchase development rights is good money management and it protects water quality and the environment. Learn more.

Monitoring an historic trail of 11 bluebird boxes.

Bats are the best!

Need to read the basics about water? What is water? What's the water cycle? Do you know the difference between ground water and surface water? Visit Tri-County/City Soil and Water Conservation District.

Conservation topics to learn more about: