Friends of the Shenandoah River Mission

A non-profit, scientific organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the aquatic environment of the Shenandoah River.

• Virginia's Premier Citizen Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Organization. Encompassing the entire Shenandoah River watershed which includes eight counties and over 100 volunteer water monitors.

• The only Level III Accredited Volunteer Water Quality Laboratory in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

• Long-term Water Quality Database

• FOSR Website: Water Window II

The FOSR Citizen Volunteer Water Monitors Coordinating and working cooperatively with a diverse network of volunteers including other groups like the Friends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River who have their own mission and goals.

FOSR’s Level III Certified Laboratory

Long-term water quality monitoring – 110+ water samples twice monthlyNitrite-NitrateOrtho PhosphateAmmoniaTurbidityE. coliField Parameters include:pH, DO and temperature

    

Friends of the Shenandoah River 

 

Volunteer Water Monitoring and Water Quality Analysis Quality Assurance Project Plan

For 

Long-term Assessment of Water Quality in the Shenandoah River Basin

  

Friends of the Shenandoah RiverFOSR Laboratory

Shenandoah University1460 University DriveGregory Hall Lab 132

Winchester Virginia 22601 

FOSR’s Water Window II

The Friends of the Shenandoah River Laboratory is expanding with the addition of two parameters.

Message from the PresidentWe, here at the Friends of the Shenandoah River, are committed to doing our part to help the Chesapeake Bay program clean up the watershed. We are upgrading our water quality analysis capability by adding testing modules for Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorous. This is an expensive leap of faith for us; but we recognize the importance of these parameters in following and measuring the Bay TMDL program.

We are going to try and recoup our cost through both grant proposals and fundraising, but we are excited about the possibilities of not just monitoring these levels in our own watershed, but in helping other organizations with their monitoring programs as well. At first, we are only going to monitor these levels at a few sites while we work through the inevitable new "wrinkles," but we hope to be able to offer this service to others in the near future.

If things really take off with this program, we may have to ask for your help as we'll have to purchase a whole new analysis machine, but for the present, we are really excited about this new direction. I'd like to thank each of you for the work you are doing as well......."Keep up the good fight."

Friends of the Shenandoah Friends of the Shenandoah RiverRiver

Karen AndersenLaboratory Director

1460 University DriveWinchester, VA 22601

(540) 665-1286friendsofshenandoahriver@gmail.com

www.fosr.org