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Water Sentinels
 Michigan Water Sentinels are making a difference.
Michigan’s Water Sentinels work to protect and restore waters we live near and care about. We test waters all over our state - at our southern border, in Mid-Michigan, the Thumb, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. We conduct baseline monitoring, monitor polluting animal factories, and notify state agencies about pollution when we find it.
We teach students how to study their water, advise on public water policy, submit comments on toxic cleanups and water permits, even on the state’s official list of impaired waters, and air quality permits that could harm our waters.
We educate others about what we learn, and we have fun doing it! There’s much to do. We need your help. Click the links for details, and contact Rita Chapman if you want to help.
shown: Yellow Dog River, northern Marquette County, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, photo by Rita Chapman
Last year's participants will tell you they learned a lot. We use a simple process - participants dial in on a toll-free number, and follow along on materials provided ahead of time by email. No special software, nor even a high speed connection, is required. Contact Rita Chapman for more information, and as soon as we've set dates for 2010, we'll let you know! Click here for our 2009 topics, and check back soon, as more information will be added over the next few weeks.
One of the items that we'll be looking at in detail here in Michigan is the list of 21 CAFOs whose permit applications and documents are currently on public notice. As of October 29, 2010, there were twenty-one facilities whose documents are on public notice. Here's the list - and we'll have more information soon. However - if you open the list, you'll see two links at the bottom that will take you to where the DNRE has stored all the CAFOs noticed documents on their website. So you can download and peruse them yourself.
Contact Rita Chapman for more information at 517-484-2372.
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