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Tools for Engaging With Municipalities and the Public on Freshwater Issues

The Delaware River Basin Policy and Practice Workgroup has developed a number of documents to provide foundational science references for environmental advocates who are collecting stream data and who wish to communicate results to local ...

Pennsylvania Watershed Organizations Interactive Map

Searching for a watershed organization near you? This online mapping tool can help you find a community watershed organization, watershed alliance, or regional partner. These organizations can help you understand watershed issues and help empower ...

USGS StreamStats

StreamStats provides access to spatial analytical tools that are useful for water-resources planning and management, and for engineering and design purposes. The map-based user interface can be used to delineate drainage areas, get basin characteristics ...

Water Reporter

Water Reporter is an app that connects people and organizations working to protect watersheds. The social network of users collect and share water observations and watershed information in an effort to build monitoring campaigns and ...

Water Data Collaborative

The Water Data Collaborative was created by a partnership of water-focused environmental organizations to "organize community water science resources, and practitioners, as well as create new and helpful tools to guide users through the entire ...

How’s My Waterway?

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides an online tool for exploring watersheds called How's My Waterway? How's My Waterway incorporates and expands upon content from the EPA's Surf Your Watershed tool which was decommissioned after ...

Scientific Technical Assistance to Pennsylvania-Based Watershed and Conservation Organizations

The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds is a team of specialists who provide free organizational and scientific technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation organizations. C-SAW does not conduct watershed monitoring or assessments. Instead, ...

EnviroDIY Monitoring Station for Measuring Road Salt

The effects of road salt on stream macroinvertebrate communities are becoming well understood, and therefore road salt isn’t necessarily an “emerging” contaminant. But road salt content in streams could be considered an indicator of more ...