Arkansas Office
1200 W. Walnut St.,
Ste. 3405
Rogers, AR 72756
Missouri Office
P.O. Box 636
11 Oak Drive
Kimberling City, MO 65686
Cleaner Water Together
Become a StreamSmart Citizen Scientist! We are looking for volunteers to monitor one or more of the following sites:
Please contact us if you are interested!!
StreamSmart is a volunteer water-quality monitoring program for the Beaver Lake Watershed in Northwest Arkansas. Started in 2012, the program equips and guides volunteers to collect water samples and site information quarterly, during February, May, August, and November. Volunteers in this program are integral to the development of a long-term database for tributary stream sites in the Beaver Lake Watershed. Through this program, we aim to engage citizen scientists, increase public awareness, and inform stakeholders about the current quality of our waterways and identify potential trends over time.
StreamSmart is designed for adult volunteers and high school students who are supervised by adults. Contact us or call 479-841-0235 if you are interested in joining this program or would like more information.
Sites are monitored and samples collected each quarter, scheduled around the first full week of the following months: February, May, August, and November.
During each monitoring period, volunteers collect water samples at their stream site, and deliver the samples to the Arkansas Water Resources Center Water Quality Lab, where they are analyzed for the following parameters:
Volunteers also measure air and water temperature, record notes about the site, and take pictures during each monitoring period.
During May and August monitoring periods, volunteers get to collect macroinvertebrates from the stream and identify the types they find. Macroinvertebrates can be excellent indicators of water quality, and they’re fun to collect and identify!
Abbie Lasater, recording air temperature at Town Branch in Fayetteville.
Volunteers work together to identify macroinvertebrates during annual training.
Grimsley Graham and Mark Curtis (left to right) monitoring Clear Creek on a beautiful November day. These two have been Streamsmart volunteers since the beginning of the program back in 2012!
Picture of a great group of women, including Karen Freeman, Jane Foster, Rose Tacker, and Rita Caver (left to Right) ready to monitor at the West Fork of the White River in November, 2020
funding provided by beaver water district