TOPICS AND PRESENTERS:
PRN partnered with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center and co-hosted this full-day workshop in southern Illinois (Godfrey) on February 11, 2010. TetraTech facilitated this hands-on, computer training session. 
Participants worked at individual computer stations as they experienced the powerful – and free! – on-line watershed management tools designed by U.S. EPA.
A course manual filled with screenshots and step-by-step instructions was provided to allow people to continue learning about and using the tools for watershed planning and management.
DOWNLOAD THE JULY 2010 COURSE MANUAL (pdf – 7.82 mb)
AND COVER (pdf – 6.29 mb)
PARTICIPANTS LEARNED ABOUT:
- Watershed Academy
- Watershed Central
- Watershed Plan Builder Tool
- Watershed Funding Resources
- Adopt Your Watershed
- Surf Your Watershed
- Water Quality Standards Database
- Enviromapper for Water
- Ask Waters
- STORET
- ECHO
- ATTAINS
- ….and more!
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This workshop, hosted by Prairie Rivers Network and the Illinois Lake Management Association, was part of a series of workshops designed to increase Illinois watershed groups’ capacity to protect and improve their local water resources. Watershed Capacity Building Workshops were funded through an Illinois EPA and U.S. EPA CWA 319 grant.
