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Volunteer Training

Monitoring Schedules

Current Monitoring Sites - Including Station #
- Lakes, Ponds & Reservoirs
- Rivers & streams
- Bays, salt ponds & harbors

Link to Bathymetric Maps of Some RI Ponds

Participating Communities

Program Partners

Monitoring Manuals and
Quality Assurance
Project Plans (QAPPs)

Monitoring Data and Results

Water Quality Factsheets

Research Connections

Aquatic Invasive Species

Cyanobacteria (Algal Blooms)

Additional Resources
- Science Fair - Water Projects
- Volunteer Monitoring
- Educational - Water Facts
- Agencies (Including URI)
- Organizations

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URI Watershed Watch Program Partners

The URI Watershed Watch program is a partnership between the University of Rhode Island (URI) Cooperative Extension, the State of Rhode Island, and local organizations. These partners provide financial and in-kind support, assist with volunteer recruitement and management, help interpret and disseminate monitoring information, and guide program improvements, enhancements and long-term success.

Major Program Sponsors:

URI Cooperative Extension
URI Department of Natural Resourcs Science
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Water Program
- Northeast States and Caribbean Islands Regional Water Quality Program
URI works cooperatively with Land Grant universities throughout the northeast and Caribbean islands to protect and restore regional water resources. This site contains information about those efforts, as well as links to a variety of programs locally, regionally and nationally.
- Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring - A NIFA National Facilitation Project

URI Watershed Watch, in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Extension's Water Action Volunteers program, works to facilitate volunteer monitoring efforts within the Extension system. This site contains a wealth of materials for supporting volunteer monitoring programs as well as links to diverse monitoring efforts nationwide.

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

Municipalities: (Year indicates when sponsorship was initiated)

Burrillville, 1999
Coventry, 1991
Glocester, 1992
North Kingstown, 1989
Smithfield, 1990
South Kingstown, 1990
Pawtucket, 1992
Portsmouth, 1997
Warwick, 1995
West Greenwich, 1996
Voluntown (CT), 2009

Environmental and Sporting Organizations:

Buckeye Brook Coalition, 2004
Citizens' Land Alliance, N. Stonington, CT., 1989
Clean Up Sound & Harbors, Stonington, CT, 2008
Committee for the Great Salt Pond, Block Island, 2001
Friends of Canonchet Farms, 2011
Friends of Hunt River Watershed, 2008
Greenwich Bay Watershed Group, 2005
Narragansett Chapter, Trout Unlimited, 1995
Narrow River Preservation Association, 1992
Rhode Island Chapter, Surfrider Foundation, 2000
Salt Ponds Coalition, 1998
Save Bristol Harbor, 2009
Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, 2005
Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, 2008
Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, 1988
Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, 2003

Indian Tribes:

Narragansett Indian Tribe, 1990

Lakeside Residents and Organizations:

Bonnet Shores Fire District, 1998
Keech Pond Association, 1996
Matunuck Hills residents, 1991
Pascoag Reservoir Association, 1996
Sand Dam Association, 1996
Saugatucket River Heritage Corridor Coalition, 1992
Silver Lake residents, 1993
Spring Lake Association, 1996
Stone Bridge Fire District, 1996

The following are other organizations with which URIWW works to provide a variety of services, exchange information and share resources.

Local, Regional and National Partnerships:

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