Virginia Save Our Streams Monitor Manual
An essential for VA SOS monitors – contains everything you need, including information on establishing a site, monitoring protocols, filling out data sheets, and submitting data.
Advocacy Tips for Urban & Suburban VA SOS Monitors
Ideas and resources to help VA SOS monitors advocate for clean water in suburban and urban areas.
Save Our Streams Car Sign
Place this sign on your car dashboard or window to let curious people passing by know that you are parked there in order to conduct stream monitoring.
Creek Freaks Curriculum
A curriculum that introduces children in grades 4-8 to watershed education through hands-on experiments and advocacy.
Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Pollution Sensitivities and Size Chart (Spanish)
A Spanish quick-guide to macroinvertebrate pollution sensitivity and size. Translation credit to Lucila Fernandez from Montgomery Parks.
Finding Your Latitude and Longitude
Guidance on how to find the latitude and longitude coordinates for your monitoring site.
Nitrate Watch Letter to the Editor Template
A customizable template for writing a letter to the editor about the issue of nitrate pollution.
Nitrate Watch Outreach Postcard
This postcard advertises the Nitrate Watch program and explains how to get started.
Nitrate Watch Kit Postcard 2: Using Your Test Strips
This postcard provides instructions for using nitrate test strips and submitting Nitrate Watch results to the Clean Water Hub. (included in each Nitrate Watch kit)
Your kit will include a bottle containing 25 nitrate test strips which you can use to test your water source(s) throughout the year. You’ll also receive postcards explaining how to use your nitrate test strips and how to share your Nitrate Watch results on the Clean Water Hub.
Your kit will include four test strips so you can test your waterway throughout the season. You’ll also receive a chart to help you interpret your results and a postcard with instructions for completing a Salt Watch test and reporting your findings.