Siuslaw Watershed Council

Monitoring

The Siuslaw Watershed Council facilitates a wide variety of monitoring projects in the basin. Two of the current projects include:

Siuslaw Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program
Once a month, trained volunteers collect and process surface water samples from sites throughout the watershed. The data obtained in the Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program (VWQMP) is baseline data. Baseline data helps water quality professionals build an understanding of the “health status” of river. Data collected in the VWQMP is not used to locate or penalize polluters. We currently measure the following water quality parameters: clarity; salinity (in the estuary); dissolved oxygen; turbidity; bacteria; temperature; and weather conditions at twelve sites within the Siuslaw Watershed.

Click on the map to see water quality data for each sampling site:
View Siuslaw Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program in a larger map

VWQMP Questions? Contact: monitoring@siuslaw.org