Ouseburn Beasties Sampling Day - Wednesday 7th May 2008

Dear All,

We are organising with Tyne Rivers Trust, Jesmond Dene Rangers and Living Waterways project a micro-invertebrates sampling day in the Ouseburn on Wednesday 7th May. Two members of the OCSG would have been trained by then and we are targeting four to five sites in the Ouseburn catchment:

1. Callerton Pond: We see it as a reference site i.e. in terms of what the Ouseburn should aspire to in the next twenty years;
2. Kingston Park outfall and A1 - Newcastle Great Park area is an excellent location to look at the impacts of the rapid land use changes occurring right now in the Ouseburn catchment;
3. Jesmond Dene - This is the most visited Park in Newcastle and we need to be sure the water quality is good enough for our children to swim in it;
4. City Stadium Culvert - Upstream and Downstream - this area is not monitored by the Environment Agency and it could be worthwhile location for our future monitoring programme.

The sampling will take place at 6pm in a synchronous fashion and the results will be dispatched through this blog and the Tyne Rivers Trust River Watch website. More information will be published on this blog when we get closer to the date.
If you are interested to come along, please contact me through this blog.

Sebastien