WOW – Where did the time go? Our 2025 monitoring ends soon. Our final water collection for nearly all of our sites in the week of October 20 – 25, 2025. But if you want to join us in 2026, we’re starting recruitment for nex tyear, 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