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Spring 2022

6390 Stream Teams Strong!

The Big Piney River Riparian Restoration Review

The Big Piney River Stream Team Watershed Association (BPRSTWA, Team 4623) has partnered with Mark Twain National Forest for several years on riparian restoration projects on Forest Service land along the river. Starting with a planting of more than 1000 trees in early March of 2020, Stream Team members also received assistance from Engineering Officer Training classes at Ft. Leonard Wood. During late 2021 and early 2022, this partnership has included work on: 1) autumn olive eradication efforts in the riparian area of the Big Piney River near Duke, and 2) preparation for a three-acre pollinator planting in the flood plain on Mark Twain National Forest land in the Elder Piney section.

Welcome Cara Arrigo

Hello!! My name is Cara Arrigo, and I am the new Stream Team Coordination Biologist for MDC! I am from the St. Louis region, and I received my Bachelor of Science from Murray State University in Wildlife Biology/Conservation Education.

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“Club City” Cleanup – A Colossal Undertaking

“Club City” is an area in the Meramec River watershed owned by St. Louis County Parks and Winter Brothers Material Company off Butler Hill Road. This site is highly prone to flooding and had never been cleaned up before. Members of the League of Watershed Guardians (Team 5168) accepted the challenge to work this 40-acre site, without blinking or thinking twice.

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Monitoring Minute

Don't Delay on Ordering Chemicals

Spring is here and water quality monitoring is in full force! Not only do we have data being submitted online, but we also have equipment requests coming in.

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Save the Dates!

SRSTA Annual Cleanups

June 4th and 18th

Bike with your Boots on

June 11, 2022

VWQM Level 2/Validation Trainings

Location Date

St. Charles 7/28/2022

Kansas City 7/20/2022

Kirkwood 7/16/2022

Springfield 7/7/2022

Jefferson City 8/6/2022

Prerequisite for attending a VWQM Level 2 training: Level 1 training and submitted water chemistry, visual survey, macroinvertebrate, and stream discharge data for two seasons.

Validation training must be completed every 3 years for monitors certified at Level 2 or above.

Teams in the News

Community Leads Scientific Efforts to Monitor Streams

Research from RiverWatch Director and Stream Ecologist Danelle Haake illustrates how community members can be a part of the scientific field and provides new insight on how road salt application affects our local streams.

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Data Stars

2021 Data Stars!

Congratulations to the 2021 VWQM Data Star award winners! We just want to celebrate those who were able to collect full submissions for their sites. These dedicated volunteers completed at least two submissions of macroinvertebrates, discharge, water chemistry, and visual survey as a level 1 trained volunteer or higher!

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Riffle Review

Since our last issue of Channels, Stream Team members reported:

512 total activities

11,989 total participants

25,920 hours

104 tons of trash collected

180 water quality monitoring trips

100 trees planted

Team 5942

Teams 1781

Team 5773

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Team 462 and 2667

Coalition Corner

News from Stream Teams United

Searching for Watershed Champions in Missouri

Stream Teams United is searching for “Watershed Champions” across the state of Missouri!

This year, Stream Teams United is embarking on a project to create several short videos that highlight individuals who have water-friendly practices on their property – whether it be their yard, field, or farm property. All watersheds consist of the individual properties located within their geographic area – which can be hundreds to thousands of properties in any given watershed. How each person manages their land – whether it be an 1/8 of an acre, or a thousand acres, impacts the health of the watershed and downstream water quality..