Clean Beaches and Streams
Summer 2006
Water Quality Monitoring Program

The Clean Beaches and Streams Program trains volunteers to help monitor water quality by collecting samples from prioritized shoreline sites (stormwater outfalls, coastal streams, etc.). Samples are then submitted to a lab for bacteria testing.

This program would not be possible without corporate donations from New England Biolabs and Cell Signaling, and the bacterial testing by New England Region 1 EPA Laboratory in North Chelmsford. SSCW greatly appreciates their support for this very valuable program.

Testing is conducted every two weeks at designated sites. The results are then shared with the watershed's municipalities as well as the public. Click the links below to view a report for a particular date:

For current information regarding local beach closures and beach water quality (from testing performed weekly by each municipality), visit the Mass. Dept. of Public Health Website. You can then access the Salem Sound communities by clicking on the map.

Results from the Clean Beaches and Streams Program for Summer 2003, Summer 2004 and Summer 2005 are available.

To be part of the solution, read Making the Stormwater Connection.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for this program, please contact:

Barbara Warren
978-741-7900