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DRBC's Summer Water Quality Monitoring Season Begins

DRBC's summer 2014 water quality monitoring efforts are underway, and staff are and will be keeping busy in the field this season sampling the Delaware River and various tributaries to support programs that include the following:

These monitoring efforts are important because water resources cannot be properly managed if they are not measured. DRBC's monitoring programs help to protect and restore water quality in the basin by providing a mechanism to evaluate how water quality criteria are being met and allow for data to be assessed.

View additional photos on DRBC's Flickr page.

 
DRBC intern Lauren McGrath fills sample bottles on the Portland, Pa. foot bridge. Samples were taken for the commission's Scenic Rivers Monitoring Program (SRMP). Photo by DRBC. DRBC intern Elaine Panuccio secures the water quality meter before deploying into the stream to collect data for the commission's SRMP. Photo by DRBC.Eric Wentz, DRBC Water Quality Technician, and Lauren prep SRMP samples taken on the Calhoun Street Bridge in Trenton, N.J. Photo by DRBC. Lauren checks the results from the water quality meter. Data is collected for the commission's SRMP. Photo by DRBC.
DRBC's Eric Wentz and John Yagecic collect samples as part of the commission's radiochemistry monitoring program. Photo by DRBC.Eric and John prep samples taken as part of the commission's radiochemistry monitoring program. Photo by DRBC.Eric and John collect samples as part of the commission's radiochemistry monitoring program. Photo by DRBC.DRBC's Ron MacGillivray preps a sample taken as part of the commission's radiochemistry monitoring program. Photo by DRBC.