Doan Brook Volunteer Training & Water Quality Demonstration at Lower Lake

Are you interested in learning more about the water that flows through your neighborhood? Join us on one of two dates to explore how you can become a local watershed steward for the Doan Brook through becoming a water quality monitoring volunteer!

• Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Lower Lake, Shaker Heights
• Tuesday, May 5th, 2026, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm: Sowinski Park, St Casimir Way, Cleveland, OH 44108

Please bring closed-toed shoes appropriate for outside activities. The area we will hold this event is accessible to wheelchairs and ~50 feet away from the primary parking.

Our Volunteer Program

The Doan Brook Watershed Partnership is partnered with the Cleveland Water Alliance and Lake Erie Volunteer Science Network to collect water quality data at 17 sites across the watershed (Watershed Sampling Map). Our sampling is conducted once a month at each site between April and October. Sampling at a site usually takes between 10 and 15 minutes, and volunteers are free to choose as many or few sites as they have capacity for. All required equipment for sampling can be checked out from our office or the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes. To ensure all of our volunteers have equal access to the necessary equipment, we ask that volunteers who check out equipment return it within a maximum of 48 hours (Or when the host site is next open.

Conducting water quality monitoring as a volunteer requires minimal skill or knowledge. This Training is for new (and returning) volunteers to teach them everything they need to know about their site(s), how to operate the equipment, and what else is expected of them. Ideally, a Water Quality Monitoring Volunteer would collect samples at their site(s) every month; however, we understand that life happens, so when something unexpected comes up, just reach out and let us know. Aside from that, all we ask of our volunteers is that they are confident in their ability to navigate the required terrain to reach their site(s) safely.

For more information on our Water Quality Monitoring Program check out our Programs page or click this link.