ICL Water Quality Stewards 2024
Interested in being a Water Quality Steward for the 2024 season? Sign up below to receive more information! 

The Water Quality Monitoring Program (WQMP) is a consistent, long-term monitoring effort to measure water quality across Lake Pend Oreille and the Pend Oreille River. This is a citizen-science initiative led by dedicated community volunteers, known as water quality stewards. The program’s goals are to inform the public and provide high-quality scientific data that regulatory agencies can use when making water quality-based decisions for our local waterways.

All volunteers are required to attend a sample collection training. We will hold training sessions at Windbag Marina on May 1st and May 8th, from 5:30-7:30pm. You only need to attend ONE training. 

Monthly stewards commit to sampling one of our stations once a month, from May through September. We typically sample on the third Tuesday of each month. All stewards must have their own watercraft (kayak, canoe, or boat). 
 
We have a substitute steward option for those who are unable to commit to one day a month of monitoring, but would still like to participate. Substitutes will be called when a regular steward is unable to collect samples. We try to give at least a week's notice when possible. 
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Email *
First and Last Name *
Phone Number *
City, State, and Zipcode *
Which training session do you plan to attend? 

Attending a training is not a commitment to being a steward, so if you are unsure we encourage you to attend, learn how the sampling works, and meet our returning volunteers! 
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For safety reasons, all stewards are required to sample with at least one other person. Do you have a volunteer partner in mind, or would you need to be paired with someone?  *
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If you answered that you have a volunteer partner in the previous question, what is their first and last name?
Would you like to be a monthly, or substitute steward?  *
All volunteer stewards are required to have their own watercraft (kayak, canoe, or boat). What would you be using to access your monitoring station?  *
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