Agency Monitoring

Along with the many citizen scientists that are sampling our local streams and creeks there are also many others monitoring them for the benefit of water quality answers.

Most of these groups are state, federal or local agencies looking for more detailed information on our waterbodies. These include the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), and the Lancaster County Conservation District. Most of these agencies sampling streams are using more sophisticated monitoring instruments that sample the streams every 15 minutes for a host of parameters. The end results are very similar to what the citizen scientists are monitoring but the amount of rigor in the sampling is much more heighten. The end result is just more water monitoring data on our local streams and creek.