About The Rivers of Colorado
Water Watch Network
The Colorado Division of Wildlife's Rivers
of Colorado Water Watch Network (RCWWN), often known as the
River Watch Program, is:
- a water quality monitoring program
- an interdisciplinary hands-on real science program
- a computer communications network
- a dynamic consortium of students, teachers, natural resource
personnel, private industry and community representatives.
Partnering with 260 schools and comunity groups to collect
quality data, the program monitors over 120 rivers at 550 stations
throughout the state, directly involving some 10,000 students
each year.
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How Water Quality Data is Collected
In addition to learning through direct experience how to conduct
scientific monitoring of water quality parameters, students are
trained to collect high quality data through Quality Assurance
and Quality Control techniques, or QA/QC.
The data, once validated by the Division of Wildlife, is entered
in a statewide database and can be used in water quality hearings.
Is the data any less valid or accurate than that collected
by seasoned professionals? No. In some cases the QA/QC proceedures
may be more rigorous than data collected by experts.
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