[Watersheds] Blackstone River Watershed Group Seeking Volunteers

[Panciera, Ernie (DEM)]

Blackstone River Watershed Group Seeking Volunteers



8/15/18...The Blackstone River Coalition (BRC), partnering with the Blackstone River Watershed Council/Friends of the Blackstone (BRWC/FOB) is seeking volunteers to assist with its 15th year of water quality monitoring of 17 sites in the Rhode Island region of the watershed.  A Field monitor is needed to sample Sylvy's Brook in Cumberland (of Grants Mill Rd). Additional volunteers are needed who can serve as "floaters" to cover sites on an "as needed" basis from Burrillville to Pawtucket.  Fieldwork not your thing?  Come volunteer in the water-testing lab, which is located at the North Cumberland Fire Station on Arnold Mills Rd.



The Blackstone River Coalition recruits and trains citizen scientists to participate in the Coalition's watershed-wide volunteer water quality monitoring program.  The goal of this long-running program is to gather information about the current status of, and long-term changes in, the health of the Blackstone River watershed.  This information helps local policy makers, state officials, and concerned citizens make the Blackstone River cleaner for people and wildlife.


Over 90 volunteers work with the BRC's member organizations to sample 75 sites throughout the watershed from Worcester to Pawtucket.  Sites are sampled on the second Saturday of each month from April through November.  Field monitors and floaters are trained in a one-hour session to test for dissolved oxygen at the site, record physical and aesthetic parameters, and collect a water sample that they drop off at the lab between 9:00 a.m. and noon on the Saturday of testing.  Lab volunteers, who help test these samples for nutrients, conductivity, and turbidity, do not need to commit to helping each month and can be trained the first time they assist.  The Headwaters Team is based in Worcester, and the Midreach Team is based in Uxbridge, MA.

To volunteer as a field monitor, floater, or lab assistant, please contact Susan Thomas, Coordinator, BRC Volunteer WQM Program at 508-471-0988/ acadia94@[P.O. Box 70477, Worcester, MA  01607   508-753-6087]zoho.com.

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