River Watch
The Haw River Watch Program, sponsored by the Haw River Assembly, gives us a clearer picture of the health of the Haw River by determining the type and location of pollution sources. By conducting four seasonal “snapshot” surveys per year. Working with the Haw Riverkeeper, volunteers act as guardians of their streams and notify state agencies if water quality is threatened.
Interested in becoming a River Watch Volunteer?
We will train you or your group! We ask all River Watchers to become members of the Haw River Assembly and contribute the cost of their equipment.
Click Here to Register your River Watch Team and Sign up for Training your River Watch Team
For more information contact kaitlyn@hawriver.org
Looking for a place to sample or a team to join? Scroll to the end to see where we have sampled in the past, where our interns sample, and where we have active teams.
Resources for River Watch Teams
Training Documents and Resources
Forms and print outs for Volunteers
Past Monitoring Reports
Our latest River Watch Monitoring report can be found in our 2023 State of The Haw report found here. This report was shared with local and state officials and contains River Watch data gathered between 2017-2023!
Read the Haw River Watch Report 2014, which provides data that the Haw River Watch Project has collected through December 2014.
Documentary on the Haw River Watch project In the spring of 2008, UNC-CH Journalism student Ru Sha put together this three-minute video, shot at our March 29, 2008 Macro-Micro Workshop on the Haw River in Bynum.