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Citizen Monitoring & Participation
The Fall Creek Watershed Committee is exploring citizen monitoring
that will survey and collect water samples from Fall and Virgil
creeks and their tributaries.
Several water quality monitoring stations have been proposed. The
information collected will be used to help insure that we maintain
a healthy watershed and will be shared between all the monitoring
teams and with County and New York State agencies.
To learn more or lend a hand, call: Yvette
de Boer (607-256-5145).
May 4, 2002 was the Second Annual Fall Creek Cleanup: 83 volunteers
pulled over 3300 pounds of trash out of the creek and off its banks!
Litter was cleared from Lake Como at the headwaters to Stewart Park
at the mouth of Fall Creek. Join us in May 2003! Contact
Sharon Anderson for details.
Read the story in our Summer Network News.
During the summer of 1974 Art Johnson (a graduate student at Cornell)
did a survey of the streams draining into Cayuga Lake. Monitoring
data of this survey was provided by Dr. David Bouldin, Professor
Emeritus, Cornell University.
The USGS collects "real-time"
data from stream flow gauges in Fall Creek, which stretches
from Lake Como in Cayuga County to the south end of Cayuga Lake.
The station is in an area of Ithaca known as Forest Home and is
upstream of Cornell University, which uses Fall Creek as its drinking
water supply.
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