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Protecting Our Waters: Fox-Wolf’s Chloride Monitoring Program

On: January 31, 2025

In: Bay of Green Bay, chloride, community, Fox-Wolf Basin, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, iwl, local, Lower Fox River, monitor, monitoring, NEWSC, opportunity, Outreach and Education, public, salt, salt watch, stormwater, streams, testing, Upper Fox River, Urban, Urban Stormwater, volunteer, volunteer opportunity, volunteers, water, Water quality, Winnebago Waterways, Wolf River

Help Protect Our Waters: Fox-Wolf’s Chloride Monitoring Program Did you know that just one teaspoon of salt can permanently pollute five gallons of freshwater? Unlike other pollutants, chloride from road salt doesn’t break down—it stays in our waterways, impacting aquatic life and even our drinking water. That’s why the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance is continuing [...]

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Join Fox-Wolf and Help Monitor for Chlorides(Salt)

On: October 28, 2024

In: announcement, Bay of Green Bay, chloride, community, Fox-Wolf Basin, Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, iwl, Keepers of the Fox, local, Lower Fox River, monitor, monitoring, NEWSC, opportunity, Outreach and Education, public, salt, salt watch, stormwater, streams, testing, Upper Fox River, Urban, Urban Stormwater, volunteer, volunteer opportunity, volunteers, water, Water quality, Winnebago Waterways, Wolf River

Join the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance, partners, and volunteers this winter to monitor for chlorides in streams throughout the Fox-Wolf River Basin!

Road salt (sodium chloride) is everywhere during winter months. It keeps us safe on roads and sidewalks, but it can also pose a threat to fish, wildlife, habitats, and more. Overall it impacts both the environment as well as human health.

Fish and bugs that live in freshwater streams can’t survive in extra salty water. And many of us (more than 118 million Americans) depend on local streams for drinking water. Water treatment plants are not equipped to filter out the extra salt, so it can end up in your tap water and even corrode your pipes.

Please join us at one of our training November 14th at Noon or 6 p.m. at the Fox-Wolf Watershed Alliance. Click the button to fill out our sign-up form for the training event. A free Salt Watch kit will be provided to those who attend. Monitoring is easy and a great way to help your community!

You can use your kit any time you can safely approach a waterway. But it’s especially important to test salt levels around the time of events that cause those levels to change. Those times are:

Before a winter storm, to find out the “normal” level of salt in your stream
After salt has been applied to roads
After the first warm day or rainstorm following a snow or freeze
After the next rain event

We could use more volunteers throughout the basin. Monitoring efforts are best done on smaller waterbodies, streams, rivers, and more. Please reach out to Alyssa Reinke, Alyssa@fwwa.org with more questions, comments, or concerns.

FREE Salt Watch kit available from at the training thanks to the Izaak Walton League!

Training Sign-Up

Past Testing Locations

The training will cover monitoring process. However, for more information, check out this video explaining the monitoring process from the Izaak Walton League:

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Alyssa Reinke

Water Quality Monitoring Season off to a good start!

On: June 29, 2023

In: fox-wolf, Fox-Wolf Basin, FWWA, Katie, lakes, monitoring, Outreach and Education, phosphorus, pollution, Poygan, program, reed, sediment, streams, system, volunteer opportunity, volunteers, Water quality, watershed, Winnebago, Winnebago Waterways, Winneconne

Our wonderful water quality monitoring volunteers have kicked off the 2023 monitoring season!

Volunteers are monitoring sites located throughout the Winnebago Waterways Recovery Area. During the growing season, volunteers monitor once a month for physical, chemical, and biological data as part of the Winnebago Waterways Water Quality Monitoring Program. Their hard work and effort results in data that allows us to monitor the water quality from month to month and year to year. Already this season, they’ve faced dry, rainy, and smoky/hazy conditions. Thank you for all you do water quality monitoring volunteers!!