Welcome to the Blue River Watershed Association!
Teaching Rivers in an Urban Environment (T.R.U.E.) is a watershed literacy, water quality monitoring curriculum targeted at students K-12.
The TRUE Blue project rains and equips area teachers, students, and community members to establish school-based stream teams that will monitor water quality throughout the Blue River Watershed and nearby streams. Students and their teachers are trained in the classroom to perform nine chemical tests, use macro-invertebrates as a bio-indicator, and perform a visual survey identifying land uses, vegetation and streambank conditions in their stream reach.
BRWA provides a combination of staff, community members and state and municipal professionals who serve as mentors to small groups of students streamside.
BRWA coordinates stream monitoring efforts by the various groups and provides well maintained equipment and qualified staff and community partners to facilitate field study.