Anacostia Riverkeeper, funded by the Montgomery County Water Quality Protection Fund and Chesapeake Bay Trust, and working with partner organizations, Friends of Sligo Creek and Neighbors of Northwest Branch, will be conducting bi-weekly water quality monitoring to inform the public about up-to-date water quality health as well as help inform long-term policy decisions about D.C. and Maryland waterways.

We will be collecting water quality samples from 5 sites in Montgomery County, Maryland on tributaries of the Anacostia River. Each site will be sampled for bacteria, water temperature, air temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, and turbidity and then analyzed in the Anacostia Riverkeeper lab. Do not worry if these terms are unfamiliar: all will be taught in the training! We need your help to sample these sites every other week throughout the summer! Sampling is done Wednesday with Thursday mornings as a back up for weather. All data goes online 24-hours later after the samples are analyzed.

All interested volunteers are required to attend one two hour virtual training session . There will be two training days via WebEx platform. You will receive the link to the video call and training manual beforehand.

The 2022 monitoring season will begin in May and run through September.