Virginia Save Our Streams Monitoring
Our Virginia Save Our Streams volunteer monitors use a variety of water quality monitoring methods depending upon their location within Virginia and the question they want to answer. See the side bar for links to these monitoring methods.
For all of our methods we offer training and certification. Data collected by VA SOS certified monitors is used by a variety of data users including the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. At this time, we do charge for our training and certification sessions. Click this link for information about obtaining training and certification (and for ideas on funding these sessions).
As an outreach of the Virginia Save Our Streams Chapter of the Izaak Walton League, Jay Gilliam (master trainer) will be offering free trainings once a month near his home in Rockbridge County.