Macatawa Area Coordinating Council2020 Watershed Annual Meeting
The 2020 Watershed Annual Meeting was held virtually on November 16, 6:30-8:30pm. The meeting included Hope College student research presentations, a report of FY20 accomplishments from the MACC and Project Clarity and an update on Lake Macatawa water quality monitoring from the GVSU Annis Water Resources Institute.
Student presentations included:
Surveying the presence of heavy metals in Lake Macatawa sediment samples
Kaylee DeRoo, Helen Holt, Christian Lundy, and Jacob VanderRoest
Determination of heavy metals accumulation in Earthworms, Lumbricus rubellus, collected from the Macatawa Watershed
Dominic DeVito, Erin Kahn, and Madison Kerber
Assessment of Macro Plastic Pollution in Storm Drain Discharge due to Rain Events in the Holland Area
Kaelyn Lagerwall, Kate Kay, and Alex Vasquez
The second part of the meeting included:
Project Clarity Annual Report by Dan Callam, ODC Network
Macatawa Watershed Annual Report (presentation) by Kelly Goward, MACC
Macatawa Watershed 2020 Annual Report (publication)
2019 Monitoring Report by Maggie Oudsema, GVSU-AWRI
