Rally for Barnegat Bay (RBB) kicked off the summer with ambient and upstream monitoring of sampling locations around the Toms River by students selected for the Water Quality Research Project under Save Barnegat Bay’s Student Grants Program (SGP). This monitoring is funded as part of the NJDEP grant (WM20-022) awarded to COA to track down and eliminate human sanitary sources of pollution in the Toms River subwatershed in partnership with SBB and Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES). Six students have been selected as Student Grant Ambassadors (SGAs) for 2023 to perform ambient/wet-weather monitoring of project sites and additional upstream monitoring over the summer. The results from these monitoring sites will help to understand existing water quality of the Toms River and help to isolate additional pollution sources that need to be fixed.
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| Stephen and Caitlyn site scoping for Save Barnegat Bay water monitoring |
The SGAs have already sampled the Barnegat Bay for the past three weeks with great success. We give our utmost thanks to the students for volunteering to help make a difference in their local watershed! Three wet weather sampling events remain to be completed. We are searching for more volunteers to help collect data. If you are interested in volunteering as a Community Scientist for RBB, please reach out to the Water Quality team at Programs@CleanOceanAction.org. Training is provided and we welcome scientists and/or concerned citizens seeking to help improve the waterways!
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