Once the water collection bottle is dry and you are at home,
make sure you label it with the following information:
1. Your name
2. Your mailing address
3. Your phone number
4. Watercourse collected from
5. Approximate location on watercourse
6. Date collected
Contact the NSSA coordinator for directions on where to send
the bottle for tests
- You may have to copy the information you have collected onto
clean survey forms. Forms used in the field tend to get dirty
and wet. Make sure your new copies are neat and legible and
that all of the data at the top of the form is entered. Make
a clean copy of the map you used with its numbered locations
and staple this to your stream sample forms.
- Make sure that you have a recording of the water temperature
of the river at the hottest time of the year (you may have to
go back).
- Make new clean copies of any maps that have been soiled or
damaged. You should now have at least two separate maps (one
that tells the history of the watercourse and one that shows
its present condition).
MAKE
SURE THAT YOU KEEP COPIES OF ALL OF THE INFORMATION YOU COLLECT.
ALL OF THE INFORMATION WILL BE USEFUL FOR REPORTS OR FOR
DISCUSSION SESSIONS WITH PROFESSIONALS.
