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Water Watch

Volunteers protecting Kentucky Waterways

The Water Watch program is dedicated to helping you protect Kentucky's streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands. The Water Watch program accomplishes its goals through volunteer monitoring, community education initiatives and community leadership and action

Learn more about how the Division of Water uses monitoring data collected by volunteers to (1) delineate and characterize watersheds, (2) screen for water quality problems and (3) measure baseline conditions and trends. The "Agency Guidance for Use of Volunteering Monitoring Data and Reports" is available in PDF format. Use the free Adobe Reader (icon on left) to download the document.

Helpful Links:

Water Watch groups in Kentucky

Bluegrass Water Watch
 
Watershed Watch Project

Volunteer monitoring programs around the country

Water Watch
14 Reilly Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-3410 ext 473
Fax: 502-564-0111
E-mail: joann.palmer@ky.gov