Public Access to Water Quality Data
Promoting clean water is a community endeavor. Therefore, our stream monitoring program is based on the philosophy that volunteer-collected data should be accessible to all citizens in the Rock River Basin and, indeed, across the state to enhance watershed management decision-making. All stream monitoring data is uploaded onto a state-wide databases that can be accessed and analyzed by all Wisconsin citizens. The database is maintained by the WDNR and is called Surface Water Integrated Monitoring System. Check out these data delivery tools.
Rock River Coalition’s Stream Monitoring Map
You can download Rock River Basin data here.
Here is a list of some of the information you can find by clicking on the map:
- Use the search box to find stations either by station name or ID number.
- Click on the stations to see associated information and download data.
- Click on the google maps link in the station pop up boxes to find street directions.
- Click on links in the station pop up boxes to find reports and other information.
- Turn on and off map features (county boundaries, streams, watershed boundaries) using the layers tab.
- Click watershed boundaries to see associated information and download watershed data.
WI DNR Surface Water Data Viewer
The Surface Water Data Viewer (SWDV) is a DNR data delivery system that provides interactive web mapping tools for a wide variety of datasets including chemistry (water, sediment), physical and biological (macroinvertebrate, fish) data.
How’s My Waterway?
How’s My Waterway is an EPA water tool designed to provide the general public with information about the condition of their local waters based on data that states, federal, tribal, local agencies and others have provided to the EPA. Water quality information is displayed on 3 scales in How’s My Waterway; community, state and national.