Volunteer Stream Monitoring

Each year, hundreds of citizens throughout Wisconsin assess water quality in our state’s streams, helping to understand and protect these water resources and aquatic life within them. DNR works in partnership with UW-Extension to coordinate Wisconsin’s Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program. The program offers citizens three levels of participation to accommodate people’s time and interests.

Level 1, Water Action Volunteers, introduces citizens to the basics of monitoring and connections between land use and water quality. Level 2, status and trends monitoring, contributes significantly to the DNR’s water quality monitoring dataset. For experienced citizen monitors, Level 3 offers more in depth monitoring opportunities for contributing information to resource decision making.

For more information contact

Christina Anderson or Kris Stepenuck
Watershed Management