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Welcome
to URI Watershed Watch
The
URI Watershed Watch (URIWW) program works with local communities
to assess water quality, identify sources of pollution in water
and provide information about water leading to more effective
management of critical water resources. URI Watershed Watch helps
local
governments, watershed, tribal and other organizations to recruit
and train volunteers to become citizen scientists gathering detailed,
quality assured monitoring data. Our comprehensive watershed-based
program focuses on long-term environmental monitoring of RI's
fresh and salt water resources including lakes, ponds, streams
and
coastal waters. We provide training, equipment, supplies and
analytical services tailored to organizational needs, while meeting
strict quality assurance and quality control guidelines in the
field and in our state-certified water testing laboratory. Click
here to learn more!
Need
to practice your Secchi disk reading?? Try
out the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program's
Secchi Simulator. Click here to
link to that great tool (Select
"Try it Out!" at the bottom.)
New
England Lakes conference - Coming very soon!!
- June 8 & 9, 2012.
Click here for
details.
Help
us to better meet your needs by participating in our URIWW
Program Evaluation and Waterbody Appeal Survey - click here!
Recent
Monitoring Data - Bacteria
Results (Last
updated 5/21/12)
2012
Blue Water Task Force Data (Enterococci)
2012
Bristol Harbor (Fecal coliform and enterococci)
2011 Salt Ponds (Fecal coliform and enterococci)
2012
Coastal Waters (CUSH, STB and Napatree Fecal coliform
and enterococci)
2012
Lakes, ponds & reservoirs (Enterococci)
2012
Rivers & streams (Enterococci)
2012
Tidal River and Shellfish Tributaries (includes Narrow
River sites)
2012
Tributaries - (Enterococci)
2011 Block Island (Fecal
coliform and enterococci)
Next
scheduled
water collections -
Wednesday,
May 30, 2012:
Salt Pond Watcher and Save The Bay sites
Thursday,
May 31, 2012:
Salt Pond tributary sites
Thursday,
June 7, 2012:
Bristol Harbor
and Sapowet Marsh
sites
Friday
- Saturday, June 22 - 23, 2012:
Rivers, streams, Greenwich Bay and Napatree sites.
Narrow River collect samples 6:45 - 8:15 AM.
Optional for lakes,
ponds, and reservoirs - but need to have samples into the lab by noon.
Saturday,
June 23, 2012:
Clean Up Sounds and Harbors, by low tide - 6:58 AM Surfrider
Foundation Blue Water Task Force sites: Samples collected from 5:30 AM - 7:00
AM, and delivered to Warm Winds by 8:00 AM |
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Call
401-874-2905 if you need to make arrangements for an earlier
drop-off date or with questions regarding parking, etc. (Full schedules
can be found and printed from here.)
Getting Involved -
No prior experience is
needed to become a URI Watershed Watch citizen scientist
- just an interest in making a difference by monitoring
water! Our citizen scientists get to go out on their favorite
lake, pond, stream or bay to gather information
on
water about once a week at mid-day from May
through October. Monitoring teams are encouraged, and actively
recruited
to help share the work. Click
here for more information about getting involved with environmental
monitoring.
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