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Afraid the lake is going to turn brown, and you will no longer be able
to swim around? Alarmed the milfoil will touch your toes, and send you home
with the woes? Scared that all of the boat wake may be giving the lake
a bellyache? Well have no fear because all you need to do is VOLUNTEER!
The LWWA needs your help in protecting the Lake Winnipesaukee Watershed. The
following volunteer opportunities are available. As hosts to the Winnipesaukee
Watershed Corps, LWWA also appreciates any information on reasonably-priced rental housing
for our AmeriCorps members.
Job Description: Water quality monitors are needed to take water
samples and do simple analyses. Monitors are expected to sample once a week
at a designated site. Sampling normally takes around an hour to two hours.
Looking for monitors who preferably can sample from ice-out up into October, but
will accept summer monitors as well.
Requirements: A boat with a motor, an anchor, an hour a week, and
a smile.
Job Description: Water quality monitors are needed to take water
samples and do simple analyses on tributaries around the lake. The selected
tributaries are Gunstock Brook in Gilford, the Mills Falls outlet in Meredith,
and Hawkins Brook in Meredith, Lake Kanasatka outlet in Moultonboro, Half Way
Brook at Lees Mills in Moultonborough, Nineteenmile Brook and Twentymile Brook
in Tuftonboro, Crescent Lake outlet and Smith River in Wolfeboro, and Merrymeeting
River in Alton.
Monitors are expected to sample once per month at one or more designated
sites beginning in March/April through June 2004. Sampling increases to twice per
month during July, August, September, and then one sampling in October. The
sampling will be repeated the following April, May, and June. In addition,
there will be 3 storm events that will need to be sampled at the
designated sites. Sampling will take approx. 1 hour. Looking for monitors who can
commit for the entire project duration.
Sampling must take place in the morning on either a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
or Thursday.
Job Description: We need writers for columns in our newsletter as well
as help with layout and bulk mailings.
Artists
Job Description: We need creative people to help with outreach materials.
Job Description: Need people willing to work on a computer with the
program Access to help us keep up with our ever-changing membership database.
Requirement: Knowledge of computers or willingness to learn.
If interested in finding out more about volunteer opportunities with
LWWA, please contact us at
mail@winnipesaukee.org or call 527-2093.
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