HAWQS Team Volunteers
Water Quality Monitoring
"Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart." -Elizabeth Andrew
The greatest threat to water quality today is non-point sources of polluted runoff. Nonpoint source pollution has many sources such as impervious surfaces from roads, building roofs and parking lots, from farm fields, industrial sites, and backyards across America. That runoff, much less visible than discharges from a factory pipe, finds its way into the streams and rivers that flow through our communities and provides the water many of us use every day.
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Although the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has a large network of professional monitoring stations, DEQ cannot possibly monitor all the waterways in Virginia. Virginians help fill that gap by volunteering their time to monitor the quality of Virginia’s waterways to ensure our water is safe and to potentially catch sources of pollution.
The section below is for current HAWQS monitors where useful links and videos can be found. Please use the links to request supplies, access digital copies of the HAWQS monitoring manual and download blank data sheets. Contact the HAWQS Program Coordinator at hef001@henrico.us or 804-501-5289 with any other questions.
