Water quality monitoring

School participation

Monitoring of Gowrie or any other creek within the region is a good hands-on exercise for students and provides relevance and value to their studies about catchments and water quality issues.

If your school is interested in, or has been, measuring water quality along your local creek, you can:

• Adopt creek sections to remove weeds and rubbish
• Participate in bio-monitoring of macro-invertebrates and water quality;
• Post data on the World Water Monitoring Day website;
• Celebrate achievements made along your local creek through the World Water Monitoring Day activities and awards program;
• Hire water quality monitoring equipment from the Landcare Discovery Centre, QMDC, at corner of Campbell and Bellevue streets, Toowoomba.

Equipment available from QMDC for water related activities is as follows:

1.      water quality testing kits include:

• pole and sample jar
• other equipment to test for:

-          turbidity,

-          electrical conductivity

-          pH

-          dissolved oxygen

2.      macro-invertebrate sampling kits  include

• pole and nets,
• sorting trays,
• magnifying glasses
• ID books

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