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Thank you for another awesome season. Our final water collection has been completed. If you haven’t done your final samples, please contact us to make arrangements to get them and/or the equipment returned. And if you want to join us in 2026, we’re starting recruitment for next year, check out “Getting Involved” to learn more.
RI Department of Environmental Management has posted updated maps of sites with aquatic invasive plants and Asian clams.
Each year warm weather brings harmful algal blooms to many of our sites. 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