The Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority is looking for Citizen Scientists in the Bayfield area.
The volunteers are trained to collect water samples from three stormwater outlets along the Lake Huron shoreline. They are checking specifically for e-Coli and phosphorous levels.
Healthy Watershed Technician Hope Brock says she teaches the volunteers how to collect and store the samples and how to do the paperwork. The samples are picked up the health unit.
Brock says anyone interested in becoming volunteer scientist can contact her at the Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority office.
"We do this every two weeks from June until the end of August," explains Brock. "They also do it after large rain events and they have a rain gauge at their home and they look at that to determine whether they need to go out and sample after those large events."
