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  1. Watershed Watch Community Science
  2. Watershed Watch Methods
    Introduction & What is a Watershed?
    1 Quiz
  3. How Do I Collect Watershed Health Data?
    How to Measure Stream Chemistry?
    4 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  4. What is an Benthic Macroinvertebrate, How to Sample, What do they tell us about Watershed Health?
    4 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  5. How do we Measure the Health of Riparian Areas
    7 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  6. How to Measure Streamflow?
    5 Topics
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    1 Quiz
  7. How to I Turn My Data Into Action?
    How to organize and interpret my data and develop findings?
  8. How to make a community presentation with my findings?
  9. How write a watershed management plan?
  10. We Calibrate Because We Care! ~ How to maintain and calibrate equipment
  11. How can I find work in the field of watershed science?
  12. How can I influence policymakers and turn my data into action?
Lesson 6, Topic 4
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Measuring the Velocity

August 11, 2020
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Finding the distance between the upstream / downstream boundaries

Measure velocity by dropping your floating object upstream of the top flag and timing how long it takes to float the entire length (the distance from the upstream to the downstream boundaries). Take the measurement a minimum of 3 times from different locations across the river. Again we are trying to get a good representation of the velocity, so find the average time. And then divide the distance from the upstream to downstream boundaries by the time to find the velocity.

stream flow velocity