Revisit the
Baseline Project - page under construction
Beginning in September
2005 and continuing in 2006, we will be revisiting many of the
original Cacapon baseline sites to
assess how they have changed. We are collecting standard field
chemistries (temperature, pH, conductivity) and preserving samples
for later nutrient analysis in the laboratory. However, the
Cacapon River Water Quality Monitoring program is much better suited
to studying water quality. This program's focus is on habitat,
in particular comparing characteristics of the water, and the
condition of the stream banks, surrounding lands, and stream bottom
today with that recorded in the baseline. This project
was profiled in the October 2005 edition of Cacapon, which will
be published to the web shortly.
This page will eventually house all of the original
baseline data, new data collected as part of the Revisit project,
and analysis. For now, it has:
