Posts for tag "river water quality"
How the Ohio EPA Uses Water Quality Data to Monitor Change in State Waterways
Millions of Ohioans are reliant on freshwater resources for drinking water and recreation. Therefore, protecting the health of these water bodies is a leading concern for regulatory groups like the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A key...
- Posted December 29, 2025
When Rivers Run Orange: Monitoring Acid Mine Drainage in Elk County
Acid mine drainage in the tributaries and mainstem Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek in Pennsylvania has made the river run orange several times over the last several decades, a visual representation of the deterioration the waterway has experienced...
- Posted September 29, 2025
Thirty Years of Data: Monitoring Water Quality in the Meduxnekeag River Watershed
The Meduxnekeag River flows right through the heart of Houlton, Maine and serves as a lifeline for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, who have lived off the river for centuries. However, runoff from urban development and...
- Posted September 24, 2025
Monitoring for a Cause: How Climate Change Impacts Freshwater Organisms in Southern Appalachia
Climate change and subsequent shifts in weather events are changing aquatic ecosystems across the world. Streams drying up in droughts, floods overflowing rivers and displacing freshwater organisms, climbing temperatures making environments unsuitable for native species, and other...
- Posted September 17, 2025
Wildfires and Wildlife: Relocating Coastal Rainbow Trout to the Arroyo Seco Stream
Human interaction has negatively impacted the hundreds of streams that run through Southern California. Man-made river and stream diversions, channeling, and damming have changed the physical and chemical characteristics of these waterways. In addition to physical impairments,...
- Posted February 10, 2025
Monitoring and Facilitating Habitat Restoration Efforts in the Great Lakes
While human infrastructure, urbanization, and industrialization have advanced human societies, the natural environment has suffered due to constructed impediments and deteriorating architecture. In order to combat this degradation, habitat restoration programs across the US work to remove...
- Posted January 27, 2025
How Citizen Scientists Track the Life Returning to Michigan’s Rouge River
A nonprofit is monitoring the bugs, fish, and amphibia returning to Michigan’s Rouge River, one of the state’s historically dirtiest streams.
- Posted April 15, 2020
