Sign Up

Sign-ups for the 2025 season are full. Please reach out to Kelly McCabe at kmccabe@hrwc.org if you are a new participant and would like to be added to the waitlist for one of the 2-hour in-person orientations listed below.

  • Washtenaw County Orientation: March 15th at 9am.
  • Wayne County Orientation: March 22nd at 10:30 am.

Volunteers who previously participated in the program in 2024 are not required to participate in an orientation, but should also contact Kelly McCabe at kmccabe@hrwc.org if you are interested in participating in the 2025 season and have not yet signed up.

Additional volunteer resources for review are available here.

Help us monitor our region’s waters!

Enjoy being outdoors and want to help monitor the water quality of local rivers and creeks! Learn how to collect water samples, measure stream flow, and use hand-held chemistry sensors. No prior experience needed.

Each year we offer a program orientation in March followed by in-field training in April for all interested participants. Trained volunteers are then expected to commit to at least 4 sampling trips during the growing season (April through September) to designated monitoring sites in Livingston, Washtenaw, or Wayne counties. During each 2 – 4 hour sampling trip, volunteer teams work together to collect valuable chemistry and flow data that supports HRWC’s and our municipal partners’ work to protect and restore the Huron River and Downriver waterways.

EXPLORE OUR DATA

Thanks to participants in this program, HRWC has more than 20 years of Chemistry and Flow monitoring data. Explore this publicly available dataset following the links below and check out this blog for a summary of recent findings. For more information about the data, find annual monitoring reports on our Chemistry and Flow Monitoring Program webpage or contact Kelly McCabe.

Explore Our Chemistry Data Explore Our Real-time Water Level & Flow Data

MORE INFO

Check out our  program webpage or email Kelly McCabe.