Community Science Programs led by Izaak Walton League of America (IWLA)

Submit your local data under the ACWA organization section of the Clean Water Hub

 

SALT WATCH Volunteer Monitoring Program for Road Salts

Road salt is important for helping people travel safely in the winter. But road salt doesn't stay on roads: it washes off into streams, where it damages the quality of our drinking water and hurts organisms that aren't adapted to life in salty environments. Road salts can also increase chloride levels in drinking water sources.

Learn more about the harmful effects of road salts on the environment and humans on the IWLA Salt-Watch FAQs page and the ICPRB website.

ACWA Community Science volunteers will be monitoring our local streams for road salt (chlorides) and submitting the data to the Clean Water Hub. We will be using their SALT-WATCH kits and easy instructions to collect our data.

Help monitor streams and water supplies of chlorides, either

*Be sure to select ACWA as your organization in the Clean Water Hub for samples in the Antietam and Conococheague watersheds

NITRATE WATCH

ACWA has limited quantities of Nitrate test strip kits available for Community Scientists. Contact Us to discuss use and participation in this program. You may also request a kit to be mailed to you.

Results are also uploaded in the Clean Water Hub. Please remember to select ‘ACWA’ when submitting results for the Antietam and Conococheague watersheds.