Partners
The URI Watershed Watch program is a partnership between the URI Cooperative Extension, the State of Rhode Island, and many local organizations. Our long-term success is due to these partnerships. These partners provide financial and in-kind support, assist with volunteer recruitment and management, help interpret and disseminate monitoring information, and guide program improvements.
Major Program Sponsors
- URI Cooperative Extension
- URI Department of Natural Resources Science
- Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
Municipalities
Many Conservation Commissions, boards and departments support volunteer monitoring with URI Watershed Watch. Their decisions and policies on water quality issues rely on this data.
*Year indicates when sponsorship began (and in some cases when it ended)
- Burrillville, 1999
- Charlestown, 2015
- Coventry, 1991
- Glocester, 1992
- North Kingstown, 1989
- Pawtucket, 1992 – 2011
- Portsmouth, 1997
- Smithfield, 1990
- South Kingstown, 1990 – 2015
- Tiverton, 2014
- Warren, 2016
- Warwick, 1995
- West Greenwich, 1996
- Voluntown CT, 2009
Environmental and Sporting Organizations
Watershed organizations and other environmental or sporting organizations are important local sponsors and partners, as well as frequently the most effective users of the data.
*Year indicates when sponsorship began (and in some cases when it ended)
- Buckeye Brook Coalition, 2004
- Citizens’ Land Alliance, North Stonington, CT, 1989
- Clean Up Sound & Harbors (CUSH), Stonington, CT, 2008
- Committee for the Great Salt Pond, Block Island, 2001
- Fishers Island Seagrass Management Coalition (NY), 2019
- Friends of Canonchet Farms, 2011 – 2012
- Friends of Hunt River Watershed, 2008
- Friends of the Saugatucket, 2020
- Greenwich Bay Watershed Group, 2005
- Narragansett Chapter, Trout Unlimited, 1995
- Narrow River Preservation Association (NRPA), 1992
- Rhode Island Chapter, Surfrider Foundation, 2000
- Rhode Island Jelly Watch, 2014
- Pawtuxet River Authority, 2011
- Providence Stormwater Innovation Center, 2020
- Quonset Development Corp (Hunt River), 2008
- Friends of the National Wildlife Refuges of RI – Sachuest Point , 2015 – 2016
- Salt Ponds Coalition, 1998
- Save Bristol Harbor, 2009
- Shellfish Restoration Foundation of Rhode Island, 2019
- Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, 2005
- Providence Stormwater Innovation Center, 2019
- The Watch Hill Conservancy, 2007
- Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge, 2008 – 2011
- Westerly Land Trust, 2022
- Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association, 1988
- Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, 2003
Indian Tribes
*Year indicates when sponsorship began (and in some cases when it ended)
Waterside Residents and Organizations
*Year indicates when sponsorship began (and in some cases when it ended)
- Bonnet Shores Fire District, 1998
- Boone Lake Dam Management District, 2018
- Bowdish Lake Association, 2016
- Georgiaville Pond Association, 1999
- Johnson’s Pond Civic Association, 2000
- Keech Pond Association, 1996
- Locustville Pond Improvement Association, 2017
- Long Pond Neighbors, 2017
- Matunuck Hills residents, 1991
- Pascoag Reservoir Association, 1996
- Sand Dam Association, 1996
- Slack’s Reservoir Association, 1996
- Silver Lake residents, 1993 – 2016
- Snow’s Pond Association, 2020
- Spring Lake Association, 1996
- Stone Bridge Fire District, 1996
- Upper Dam Pond Conservation Association, 2020
Local, Regional and National Partnerships
These are other organizations with which URI WW works to provide a variety of services, exchange information and share resources: