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Volunteer Stream Corridor Survey With the award of a Special Coastal Environmental Grant in 1997, the Portage River Basin Council, the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments (TMACOG), the Ohio EPA, and local agencies and institutions worked together to gather information about the Portage River and its tributaries. In the fall of 1997 and spring of 1998, Ninety six volunteers surveyed over 17 miles of stream corridors. Information from these surveys was entered into a computer database and used to produce maps of each segment representing the findings. Information from the surveys included: Stream Obstructions, Stream Bank Erosion, Point Source Discharges, Stream and Bank Litter, Channel Width and Depth, Stream Bank Vegetation, and Adjacent Land Use. This information is used by the partners in this effort to identify priorities for further action and as a basis for further study and funding opportunities. The Mainstem of the Portage River is approximately 60 miles long, with many more stream miles of tributaries. Therefore, there are many stream segments within the Portage River Basin that we still know very little about. TMACOG is working with the other project partners to complete a second set of surveys in the spring of 2000. For more information about this project or if you are interested in participating in the stream corridor surveys, contact us at: moebius@tmacog.org
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