Heading to the river this weekend? The free Swim Guide app can help you find the best places to swim! Visit theswimguide.org for information! The Waterkeeper Swim Guide app and Swim Guide website (theswimguide.org) contain over 7,000 popular places to …
As the school year nears its end and we start looking forward to warmer weather and time spent on the water, happy people are flocking to the Youghiogheny River watershed. We can help you make an informed decision about where you …
We’re pleased to announce we’ve recently received $25,000 from The Pittsburgh Foundation to support our 2016 Swimmable Waters project. Included in this project are funds to construct an in-house laboratory to process E. coli samples. Processing the samples in-house will …
Our 2014 Swimmable Waters project has come to a close. Many, many thanks to The Pittsburgh Foundation for generously providing the funding for this important initiative. Throughout the course of the summer, we conducted E. coli sampling at 15 locations throughout …
Our August round of E. coli sampling at popular swimming holes around the watershed is complete. We’re happy to say that the vast majority of sites we’re sampling are safe for swimming, so get out there and enjoy the rest …
The first and second rounds of sampling for our Swimmable Waters project are in the book! We’re pleased to report that water quality in the Yough watershed as a whole is extremely good. Check out theswimguide.org for information. We’ve created …
We have received funds from The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Health and The Environmental Giving Circle to conduct water sampling at popular swimming locations during Summer 2014. We’re calling this our Swimmable Waters project, and we’ll be sampling in areas with high levels of contact recreation …
We need your help! Suggest your favorite swim hole in the Yough watershed for sampling this summer! We have received funds from The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Health and The Environmental Giving Circle to conduct water sampling at popular swimming locations during Summer 2014. …
Through our comprehensive water quality monitoring program, we are documenting baseline water quality throughout the watershed. We sample quarterly for several different parameters, one of which is E. coli. E. coli is a bacterium found in the intestines of humans …
