Water Quality Monitoring

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TRWA Blog

TRWA Blog
  • Announcing the Winners of our 2026 Tide Calendar Contest -    Thank you to all the photographers who entered TRWA’s 2026 Tide Calendar Contest!  With so many extraordinary entries, the judging was quite difficult. We are pleased to share the following winners: 2026 Cover: “Sweet Merganser,” Burrage Pond, Halifax, MA – Laura Fitzgerald-Kemmett January: “River Wonderland,” The Old Colony Ave/South... Continue reading
  • Annual Meeting, November 1st - Join us for the TRWA Annual Meeting. Special Presentation: Invasives Management and Habitat Restoration. All welcome. Free, with $10 suggested donation. Light meal included.   AGENDA- 4-5pm General Business Meeting: Welcome and President’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, Nomination and Re-election of Board of Directors and Officers, 2025 Program Recaps: Bruce Spooner... Continue reading
  • Thank you to our Festival Sponsors! - The TRWA Taunton River Festival at the Weir Village Riverfront Park on June 8th would not be at all possible without the generous support of our local Sponsors! Their support allows us to celebrate the Taunton Wild & Scenic River with the  community during National Rivers month. We are excited... Continue reading
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Watershed News

Watershed News
  • October Water Quality Monitoring Results - October was the last sampling month of the TRWA 2025 sampling season. I want to thank our volunteers for a very successful season where not a single sample was missed! I hope our samplers are able to attend TRWA’s annual meeting on Saturday, November 1st at Bristol Aggie, 4:00 to 6:30 PM... Continue reading
  • September Water Quality Monitoring Results - In September as shown on the Bridgewater USGS River Flow Gage, the drought in our watershed continued despite two significant short storms of moderate intensity. On 9/6 three days before we sampled, the Taunton River flow was only 54 cubic feet per second (cfs) a very low flow for this... Continue reading
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Bruce Spooner Education Center

Bruce Spooner Education Center Programs

Upcoming Events

 

January 

 

Listening to Nature with Bioindicators
with Abby
Saturday January 24th
2:00pm – 3:30pm

 

Guided Walk: The Taunton River in Winter
with Ellenor Simmons
Tuesday, January 27th
10:00am – 11:30am

 

February

Coming soon!!!

 

 

Programming is made possible by the generosity of our members, individual donors, the Bruce Spooner Family and

 

See our events calendar for more events

Tides in Fall River:

To get the time of HIGH tide in Taunton add approximately 45 minutes to the high tide times listed below. For the time of LOW tide in Taunton add 2 hours and 15 minutes to the time of low tide listed below.

Water Height at the Titicut St gauge in Bridgewater:

USGS Water-data graph for Taunton River
Our Mission...to protect and restore the watershed’s natural resources for current and future generations.