Give a little bit of your time and become a Riverkeeper member. Go to our contact section and ask how you can support the Riverkeeper cause.
Besides it's YOUR river, help protect it!
We currently need volunteers to:
- Monitor the streams in our community.
- Examine NPDES permits for appropriateness and accountability and violations.
- Review TMDLs for their capacity to solve the problems.
- Take our message to civic groups and schools.
- Teach others to monitor for water quality.
- Attend government meetings to determine if our governments are protecting our waters.
- Organize clean up activities.
- Organize Creekkeeper, Covekeeper and Streamkeeper groups.
- Advocate and educate for water quality.
- Look for polluting activities on the River or in your neighborhood.
- Report activities that could result in pollutants reaching the water.
- Work to create and maintain buffers for all of our water bodies.
- Understand and apply best management practices (BMPs) for the application of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
- Understand the relationship between stormwater, impervious surfaces and flood plains.
- The Georgia EPD and South Carolina DHEC are overworked and understaffed, help to be their eyes and ears. Report pollution. Monitor agricultural and forestry practices for water protection measures.
- Locate sources of water impairment on our streams and report them.
- Stencil storm water drains.
- Monitor construction sites for appropriate erosion protections.
- Help maintain databases.
If you woud like to volunteer for one of our upcoming events sign up now or if you want to take our Water Quality Primer course, contact us!
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