THANK YOU TO OUR AWESOME VOLUNTEERS! Our 2024 monitoring season is now completed for most of our sites. If you didn’t get us your last samples or your didn’t return your  monitoring equipment and supplies we really need you to get them to us. Please contact us to make those arrangements. We need the equipment so we can clean, calibrate and prep it for next season. 

RI Department of Environmental Management has posted updated maps of sites with aquatic invasive plants and Asian clams.

Wet, warm weather like we are experiencing often leads to harmful algal blooms  To learn more these blooms or current advisories posted to warm of potential harm if you swim in a particular place, check out our HABs resource page. 

Want to see more about HABS? Check out this Self Magazine article that features URIWW: https://www.self.com/story/toxic-blue-green-algae

Photo of E.Torello on Potter Pond in South Kingstown, RI; photo by B. McCusker