(Wahpeton)– A program that utilizes volunteers to help track water quality of the Iowa Great Lakes could use some help again this summer.
Jane Shuttleworth of Friends of Lakeside Lab coordinates the Cooperative Lakes Area Monitoring Project, also known as CLAMP. She says they’re looking for volunteers who live on the lakes and have a boat to collect water samples periodically throughout the summer. Shuttleworth says they’ll provide the equipment needed to take the samples, which will be analyzed at Lakeside Lab, where the results will be documented. She says the information is important as they work to establish a base line for the records.
Training and refresher workshops for those interested in volunteering will be held at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Saturday, May 31st; 1:00 p.m. Sunday, June 1st; and 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 4th.
The lakes involved in the CLAMP program include East and West Lakes Okoboji; Big Spirit Lake, Little Spirit Lake, Silver Lake, Center Lake, Upper and Lower Gar and Minnewashta.
CLAMP is sponsored by Friends of Lakeside Lab and coordinated by Lakeside Lab in partnership with the University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
