Volunteer Monitoring Mapping Application
CT DEEP coordinates a statewide Volunteer Water Monitoring Program that trains volunteers to collect water quality data using a variety of DEEP certified methods. To learn more, or to view monitoring results, click on the corresponding program tab. For the best experience, please view this mapping application on a desktop or larger screen.
The
RBV
program
trains volunteers to collect benthic macroinvertebrates from suspected
high-quality streams. Click
here
to view the most recent annual program report. The RBV tab displays
past RBV results, categorized by the number of "most wanted" (highly
pollution sensitive) taxa found at each site.
Sites with four or more "most wanted" (MW) taxa are able to be
assessed as fully supporting aquatic life use as part of Connecticut's
Integrated Water
Quality Report to Congress. These sites are displayed as yellow circles on the map, and all
other sites are displayed as smaller blue circles.
Click on the circles for more information about the site.
Areas of the map that are shaded green are predicted to have high
water quality.
If no assessment (blue or red line) has been made on a stream in a
green watershed, that is a great location to target RBV
monitoring!
The
VSTeM
Network
trains volunteers to collect continuous stream temperature data using
temperature loggers. Data from this program is used to support CT DEEP
Water Monitoring's larger efforts to map
coldwater
habitat
in the state.
The shaded blue areas are watersheds predicted to be coldwater that
must be confirmed by temperature data. Sites confirmed to be coldwater
are shown as blue circles. Other monitored sites are shown as smaller
black circles.
Click on the circles for more information about the site.
The CT Lake Watch program trains volunteers to monitor lake and pond water clarity using a Secchi disk and thermometer. To view a report summarizing CT Lake Watch results for each monitored lake, click on the site and follow the link.