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Choosing a Testing Location

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Define your goals and gather watershed information 
  • Do you have suspicion of contamination or concern about location water quality?
  • Does a location receive a lot of primary contact recreation?
  • Do you want to join an existing water testing group or test a new location on your own?
  • Use online resources like Google Maps or the EPA's How's My Waterway website to identify accessible and important locations.
  • Consider point and non-point pollution sources. 
  • View existing and potential new MSWS water testing locations on the map below. 

Conduct a Stream Walk
CLASS: Use site criteria to determine if a location would make an appropriate monitoring site
  • Convenient: Choose a site that is easy for you to access and conduct testing on-location 
  • Legal: Be sure to choose a public sampling location, or obtain landowner permission to access or cross private property
  • Accessible: Make sure you can access the site with your vehicle to a certain point and then on foot.  It's also important to consider if you will be able to physically collect a sample during different weather and water-depth conditions.    
  • Safe: Choose a site that is safe to access, taking into consideration factors like parking, flash flooding, traffic, vegetation density, steep banks, or other hazards. 
  • Strategic: Make sure the site you choose strategically aligns with your sampling goals and objectives in an efficient manner. 

Select your location and submit your Sampling Site Data Form
Sampling Site Data Form

MSWS Locations Map
Blue pins are locations with current testing volunteers
Purple pins are locations that have been tested in the past
Silver pins are potential testing locations 

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Watershed
    • Our Team
    • Our Programs
    • Year in Review
  • Our River
    • Water Testing Results
    • Watershed Issues
    • Watershed Research
    • Water Trail
    • Water Watch
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Support our Programs
    • Clean our Watershed
    • Test our Water
    • Mark our Storm Drains
  • NEWS
    • 2022 Clean Sweep Results
    • PRESS
    • Blog
    • Resources
  • REPORT POLLUTION