WANT TO JOIN OUR AWESOME VOLUNTEERS?! Our 2025 monitoring season starts soon. If you’d like to learn more about Watershed Watch and becoming a volunteer monitor, our new volunteer training begins on Saturday, March 29, 2025. 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