A Service Provider for Community-Based Water Monitoring Groups
Share Your Monitoring Info With The Network
We want to hear about your program details.
Help us learn more by clicking through the links below.
If you haven’t already, carve out about 20 minutes to complete our Network’s survey and inventory of NJ community-based water monitoring groups. Questions include information about the type of work you are doing and what resources you would like to be made available to you by the Network and NJDEP. (Thanks to the 24 groups that have already participated!)
Your program’s fixed monitoring sites are an important part of the New Jersey water quality puzzle. Click below to download an Excel template to record your site information and email it to Network Coordinator, Erin Stretz, at estretz@thewatershed.org. Have your own spreadsheet? Send that instead!
EPA Region 2 Equipment Loan Program OPEN NOW
Applications Due May 27, 2021
The equipment available for the 2021 loaning period are:
Water Quality Sets: include Garmin GPS units, turbidity tubes and YSI Multi-Parameter Sondes for measuring general water quality parameters such as dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, conductivity and salinity
IDEXX Sets for Pathogen Monitoring: allow the user to perform laboratory tests for Enterococcus and Total Coliforms/E-Coli
Manta Trawl for Microplastics: only 1 available; requires use of a boat (minimum 18 footer)
This loan program is restricted to equipment only, and does not include expendable sampling or analysis supplies – see the RFA, which includes an estimate of consumable costs.
