Lower Kenai Peninsula Watershed Health Project
Cook Inlet Keeper has teamed up with the Homer Soil and Water Conservation District to develop the Lower Kenai Peninsula Watershed Health Project. The goal of the project is to collect professional-level, baseline water quality data on four Lower Kenai Peninsula salmon-bearing streams. You can download recent reports by clicking the links below:
Background:
The Anchor River, Stariski Creek, Ninilchik River, and Deep Creek boast healthy salmon and dolly varden populations. Current and potential changes in land use and natural resource management within these watersheds will have an unknown impact on water quality. Citizens, industry, and resource managers need a comprehensive and ongoing inventory of water quality in order to track changes and understand impacts.
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Collecting Water Quality Data: Every six weeks, Keeper’s stream ecologist visits a total of twelve sites on the four streams. At each site, the ecologist and her assistant take flow and water quality measurements, describe the environment, and collect water samples. The ecologist performs more water quality analyses at the lab of the Kachemak Bay Campus of Kenai Peninsula College.
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Parameters Measured:
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For more information contact Sue Mauger
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Last modified 25 January 2006
