Susquehanna Basin Publishes Results of Water Quality Assessment Of Border Streams

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission published its annual assessment reports on the condition of streams that cross and sometimes re-cross the New York–Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania–Maryland state lines.

 

Among the benefits of SRBC’s interstate monitoring program, water managers can use the data to determine if water quality standards are being met in the three states. It also provides an overall assessment of the biological health and habitat condition of the interstate streams.

 

SRBC monitors more than 50 locations along the interstate streams.

 

Online viewers can click on any point on the maps to get water quality, biological and habitat results for each monitoring location.

 

“This monitoring program generates data that would otherwise not be available to the states of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland,” said Paul Swartz, SRBC Executive Director. “As an agency that works on a watershed basis versus based on political boundaries, the Commission is uniquely qualified to conduct these interstate assessments.”