Community Science Water Quality Monitoring Program
Community Science Sampling Locations - 2024
We have partnered with the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Colorado State University and the Colorado Department of Public Health (CDPHE) to create and manage a Community Science Water Quality Monitoring Program in the Upper Poudre Watershed. To date, CPRW’s community science volunteers have collected over 1,000 water samples.
Our Community Science Water Quality Monitoring Program has three focus areas:
Develop a baseline data set of water quality in high priority reaches (based on CPRW’s Upper Poudre Resiliency Plan)
Collect water quality data to measure the impact of prescribed fire, an increasingly important forest management tool, on our waterways
Monitor the impacts from the Cameron Peak Fire and track outcomes from post-fire restoration
Collect data pre- and post-project to better understand the impacts of river restoration on water quality
Calling all community scientists!
Volunteers will collect water quality data in small streams in the Upper Poudre Watershed on a monthly basis from June-October. Fill out the below form if you are interested in learning more.