The Dallas County Conservation Board is asking for volunteers for their water quality monitoring program coming up. 

Outreach Coordinator Sarah Gilchrist says they are having events to get people interested from 11am to noon or 1 to 2pm  this  Saturday at the Forest Park Museum in Perry. She tells Raccoon Valley Radio that they are starting a volunteer-based water quality monitoring program to help fill gaps in their data and allow them to provide information to the public. 

“So one thing that we’ve been really aware of recently in central Iowa over the last few years is our water quality. The problem is that there’s not a lot of information. There’s not just a lot of hard data out there. And so we need to get some people who are interested in that topic and concerned about our water quality and actually be part of gathering data. And so we have an informational session. So showing up at this program does not commit you in any way, but it’s more of a ’this is what it would be like to be a volunteer monitor.’” 

Gilchrist requests  that people willing to show up this Saturday for the informational program to register by contacting the host of the programs and the email is here. Zach.Moss@DallasCountyIowa.gov