Our new 2024 monitoring season is nearly done! Final water collections for lakes, ponds, rivers and most marine sites is October 23 – 28, 2024. This is the time to return monitoring equipment and supplies so we can clean, calibrate and prep it for next season. Please contact us if you need to reschedule of for more information.

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