Water resources and your watershed

• EPA's Surf Your Watershed
• Permit to Collect
• Envirofacts
• Water Quality Standards
• Water Quality Criteria
• Black Creek Watershed Coaliton
• Oatka Creek Watershed Coalition

Land use issues and how to protect water quality

• USGS Current Perspectives
• Attend county Water Quality Coordinating Committee meetings (contact the county Soil and Water Conservation district); to find out about issues in your community.

Education/Information

• International "River of Words" Poetry and Art contest (for youth ages 5-19)
• Environmental Art and Poetry Gallery
• USGS
• Groundwater activities
• Center for Environmental Information
• NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water
• Rochester Environment
• Environmental Advocates of New York
• Environmental Education

Ideas for funding educational efforts

• EPA's Environmental Education Grants Program
• Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
• Environmental Finance Program

Testing: what can be done locally to help preserve and protect your water resources.

• Become a volunteer water quality monitor. Attend a training Workshop or schedule a presenter to come to your school to learn the techniques for collecting quality data on your waterway.
• Sea Grant nonindigenous species
• Bioassessment and Biocriteria

Equipment Suppliers

• Carolina Biological Supply
• Ward's Natural Science Establishment
• Wildlife Supply Company
• Vernier LabPro

Preserving

• Non-point source pollution
• Storm drain stenciling
• U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service's Programs and Activities
• Low-impact Development Center Links
• National River Cleanup Week
• International Coastal Cleanup sponsored by the Center for Marine Conservation on the third Saturday of every September
• National Wildlife Federation's site on backyard conservation projects.
• Schoolyard Habitats
• Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program
• Work with a DEC regional fisheries biologist to improve fish habitat or restock desirable species.Click for a list of Regional offices in New York State.