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Monitoring Overview

What's Monitored

Becoming a Citizen Scientist

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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

Monitoring Data and Results

Water Quality Factsheets

Research Connections

Aquatic Invasive Species

Cyanobacteria (Algal Blooms)

Success Stories

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

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 recruitment 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 Resources 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

• 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
• Pawtuxet River Authority, 2011
• 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:

• Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
• National Water Quality Monitoring Council
• New England Regional Monitoring Collaborative
• North American Lake Management Society and the New England Chapter
• River Network
• Save The Lakes
• The Volunteer Monitor Newsletter
• United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Office of Water