ROE JAN WATERSHED COMMUNITY

The Roe Jan Watershed Community started as a citizen-science project to sample the Roe Jan, so we would have a better idea of its condition. Using Riverkeeper for guidance, and the Bard Water lab for assistance and testing, and with strong support from the Columbia Greene chapter of Trout Unlimited, the first sampling was in May of 2016 and continued monthly for five more months. In 2016 we sampled fourteen sites along the 50+ mile length of the Roe Jan, from north of Hillsdale all the way to the mouth of the Roe Jan, in between Germantown and Livingston, including 3 sites on the banks of the Hudson. In 2017 we added several new sites, and initiated Student Sampling Day in May.