Volunteer: Water Quality Day

The Squam Lakes Association's water-quality data set is the oldest in the northeast, and we need YOU to help keep it going. Volunteer water quality monitoring is a great way to get involved in the Squam community, get outside, and contribute to important research. Join us to collect a water column sample and a data profile at one of our monitoring sites on Sunday, Aug. 17, from 9:30 am – 3 pm.

The purpose of this excursion is to get folks out on the water and show them how the SLA and its volunteers collect water quality data. Participants will get hands-on experience using our equipment from the boat. We will meet at the SLA headquarters and then head out to Moultonborough Bay to collect a water sample. Once we're finished, we will dock on Moon or Bowman Island to eat lunch and take in the scenic views. 

The SLA has been building its water quality data set since 1978. Our volunteer network is crucial to gathering samples and measurements at our deep-water monitoring sites across the watershed.

Minors must be accompanied by an adult, and registration is required for this event.

Volunteers should bring plenty of water, lunch, snacks, sunscreen, bug spray, appropriate clothing, as we will be out on the water for several hours. Be prepared for your hands and arms to get wet as we take water quality measurements. Come prepared for rain as well. As long as it's not too windy or thundering, we will go out.

Carolina Swindel is a Watershed Resource Assistant with the SLA. She is from Sacramento, California, and spent the last year serving as an AmeriCorps Member with the Watershed Management Unit at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. In her off time, she enjoys painting, hiking, knitting, and spending time in or near bodies of water.

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Meet in the great room and we will head out toward Moultonborough Bay.

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