Strength and Stability Through Coordination...

Virginia citizens have been involved in water quality monitoring for many years.  There are organizations, such as the Citizens for Water Quality that support these monitoring activities.  However, there has never been an organization of the citizen monitoring groups.  Collaboration between citizen monitoring groups can provide a more effective approach to coordinating many of the basic functions of citizen monitoring; such as recruitment, protocols, and training.  A citizen monitoring organization can also provide the individual monitoring groups with a louder voice regarding regional and state water quality issues.

Mission:

• Coordinate existing volunteer water quality monitoring efforts
• Identify appropriate volunteer water quality monitoring methodologies
• Identify appropriate uses of volunteer water quality monitoring data
• Provide a funding mechanism for volunteer water quality monitoring
• Promote watershed water quality and stream health needs and issues