Events

Join our monitoring team this 2026 season. The monitoring season runs from April through September with outings in Washtenaw, Wayne, and a limited number in Livingston County. New volunteers are required to attend one of the 2-hour in-person orientations in March. Please register following the links below.

• Washtenaw County Orientation: Saturday, March 14th 9am – 11am at HRWC
• Wayne County Orientation: Saturday, March 21st 9am – 11am at Lake Erie Metropark

Volunteers who previously participated in the program in 2025 are not required to attend an in-person orientation and can sign up here.

Contact Kelly McCabe at kmccabe@hrwc.org if you have questions or for additional information.

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.