BRFAL Save our Streams Monitors

Virginia Save our Streams has more than 600 volunteers collecting information at approximately 250 stream sites. Our local SOS chapter is the Smith Mountain Lake (SML) Watershed. SML-SOS and BRFAL have a long standing collaboration for stream monitoring. Many BRFAL members are certified SOS monitors, reporting data on over 15 stream sites. 

Having site-specific and timely water quality information allows us to identify pollution problems, determine how to restore streams, and assess success of restoration efforts. Data from SOS monitoring is recorded and shared with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. 

Monitoring is officially paused right now due to Covid-19 precautions

Monitors, be sure to check your email for a message from Samantha Briggs, Virginia Save Our Streams (SOS) Clean Water Program Director. SOS is hosting a photo contest!

Submit your best photos in the following categories: Macroinvertebrates, Monitoring in Action, Community, Pets and Streams, and Nature and Wildlife. For information on category descriptions, contest rules and prizes (wow!) be sure to visit:

https://www.iwla.org/water/save-our-streams-photo-contest?utm_source=cwc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cwcphotocontestnov2020

Contest ends December 31, 2020.

We are missing each other and our "creek time"!