Dear Citizens of Southeastern Vermont!
It is time ... it is well past time ... for us to be making this call out to you once again to help us support this very important program! The WQMP has been active for EIGHT whole summers since 2002. We are one of the largest and longest running monitoring programs in the state. Our work is so very important for the following reasons:
* Monitoring is one of the most vital ways to help people connect with their steams and rivers - when we go out to wade in the river and collect our fragile samples, we are not only immersing our bodies in the running water, but we are giving our whole SELVES a chance to rest, to breathe, and give back just a little bit to this very dear resource that gives us so very much!
* The DATA is essential for Federal, State, and Local governments to make decisions about the future land use in the Southeastern Vermont. If and when the data shows a river or stream is healthy, it is very difficult to allow for new development that could change this .. but if we never know that its' clean ... or we don't keep showing them, then some day, somebody could make a case for new development that COULD impact the river in a negative way.
* WE, the local people who are so lucky to live here, raise our children and enjoy this beautiful country, need this DATA. Do you swim all summer hoping that the water is clean? OR do you just never go because you are afraid you could get sick ... well, if you become a member and you get INFORMED, you won't have to be afraid. You can make confident decisions based on knowledge and let your kids enjoy the beautiful waters of Southeastern Vermont and go to the pool when the waters aren't safe.
Here is our note from our long time Board Member, Jeremy Schrauf, with more about our current financial situation:
Last year we received just enough in member donations, Town funds and grants to do our sampling program. This year all of the grants we received in the past have ended and only five of the Towns are able to support us this year. The program for 2011 is in jeopardy.
We are now $3,500 short of what we need to conduct any sampling this summer. We have a generous member donation of $1,000 toward that goal if we can raise the remaining $2,500 in the next few weeks.
I’m hoping you would be as generous as you can in this membership renewal drive so that we can meet the goal before sampling is scheduled to begin Wednesday, June 8th ...
I can mail or email you a membership form if that would be helpful. If not necessary, please mail your donation to SeVWA at PO Box 402, Brattleboro, VT 05302
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