This just in from Jennifer Epstein, of Riverkeeper: “Results from our 8/29 Wallkill River water quality testing are on the Riverkeeper website. You can see them here: http://www.riverkeeper.org/…/citi…/wallkill-river-watershed/. In other mid- and upper-Hudson tributary watersheds where we sample, including the Rondout Creek, we observed notably good water quality on our late August sampling days. In the Wallkill River watershed, the …
Water Sampling
Community scientists throughout the Wallkill River Watershed are taking monthly water samples for processing aboard the Riverkeeper patrol boat’s lab. We test the water for Enterococcus,an EPA-recommended indicator of fecal contamination that can be used to assess whether water meets federal safe-swimming guidelines. Linked here are the results from sampling on May 30, which include three new sampling sites in …