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Online Data Entry

Program Contacts

Program Information

Monitoring Overview

What's Monitored

Becoming a Citizen Scientist (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
- Volunteer Monitoring
- Educational
- Agencies (Including URI)
- Organizations

Welcome to URI Watershed Watch

The URI Watershed Watch program works with local communities to assess water quality, and provide information for 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 ecological 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 laboratory. Click here to learn more!

Recent Monitoring Data - Bacteria Results (Last updated 1/26/12)
2012 Blue Water Task Force Data (Enterococci)

2011 Bristol Harbor (Fecal coliform and enterococci)
2011 Salt Ponds (Fecal coliform and enterococci)
2011 Coastal Waters (CUSH, STB and Napatree Fecal coliform and enterococci)
2011 Lakes, ponds & reservoirs (Enterococci)
2011 Rivers & streams (Enterococci)
2011 Tidal River and Shellfish Tributaries (includes Narrow River sites)
2011 Tributaries - (Enterococci)
2011 Block Island (Fecal coliform and enterococci)

All 2010 data is click here for summary tables, or here for charts for individual sites. We're finishing up the analyses from the 2011 data, and will get that online as soon as possible.

Interested in monitoring in 2012?? Click here to learn more.

Next scheduled water collections - Saturday, February 18, 2012: Surfrider Foundation Blue Water Task Force sites: Samples collected from 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM, and delivered to Warm Winds by 1:45 PM All other sites should have been collected by now. Please contact us to make arrangements to bring in your last samples or at least to return your monitoring supplies.

Call 401-874-2905 if you need to make arrangements for an earlier drop-off date or with questions regarding parking, etc.

If you missed your scheduled sampling dates please call up as soon as possible to make arrangements for dropping off your final samples AND MONITORING EQUIPMENT!

Getting Involved -
No prior experience is needed to become a URI Watershed Watch citizen scientist - just an interest in getting out on your favorite lake, pond, stream or bay to gather information on about a weekly basis mid-day from May through October. Monitoring teams are encouraged, and actively recruited to help share the work. Click here for more information.