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Volunteering There are many opportunities for making a difference in the Hollowbrook watershed. Our volunteer programs, for individuals and for groups—like scouts, clubs, school athletic or clubs, associations—youth and adult—are ways to help your local environment.
Look through the listings here. Pick a project, or tell us your interest and contact us by telephone (insert #) or email at (insert e-mail). You can also watch the website for “events” and let us know you are coming to an event or work party. |
| Westchester County Citizens’ Volunteer Monitoring Program The Westchester County Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Program (WCCVMP) was established in 2003, through the Safe Drinking Water Act funding distributed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, in order to create a baseline of water quality data on both lotic (streams and rivers) and lentic (ponds and lakes) water bodies and make this water quality history accessible to the public. All volunteers must go through a training workshop where they will learn water quality collection procedures. No fee or prior experience is necessary to participate in a training workshop. After completing the workshop, volunteers are then able to join a monitoring team. All volunteers in a team commit to the program for at least a year and volunteers can commit to longer periods of time if they like. Collecting water quality data will take between two to three hours of time, depending on distance between sites and experience level. Anyone interested in joining (or creating) a water monitoring team, email Susan Darling, or call (914) 995-4400 and let her know you are interested in monitoring the Hollowbrook. You can also email us at hollowbrookww@yahoo.com. |
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Internship/Volunteer Assistants
These “positions” would entail 3 or more hours a week and assist the HWW Coordinator in managing the ongoing projects. Review the list below and contact _____ at _______ or email: _____. This could work into college or high school internship requirements (or interests) or be a more substantial volunteer opportunity for someone who seeks a fuller commitment to or experience in an organization.
Website updating & blog management: Our website is a place we want to keep active and update information as we get it so that people can USE the site and it is USEFUL to them. We also want to link with other sites doing river restoration work, river education, and water quality work. In addition, managing a weblog (Blog) about a particular topic--for instance, sites people see pollution/trash--would be helpful to us here at the office since we are all working part-time.
Environmental Education and Outreach:
Data Coordination:
Community Liaison:
