As of October 2021, we’ve completed our 4th season of water quality monitoring.

Twice a month from June to October, our hardy volunteers left the Port Jeff dock at sunrise to collect water quality data in 10 locations throughout Port Jefferson and Setauket Harbors, and The Narrows of Conscience Bay. (See map for testing locations.)

Setauket Harbor Task Force partners with Save the Sound’s Unified Water Study — a water quality monitoring protocol developed so groups around Long Island Sound can collect comparable data sets using the same type of equipment and methodology to track and monitor the environmental health of our bays and harbors.

By standardizing the protocol, the UWS will deliver more reliable data to further our understanding of the health of Sound which, in turn, will inform and support our actions to preserve and protect it.

Our participation in the Unified Water Study helps us measures the relative environmental health of Setauket Harbor, Port Jefferson Harbor, and the entrance of Conscience Bay while also contributing to the big picture of the Long Island Sound and human impact on it.

The data we collected over the last two seasons will be used by Save the Sound to create a new report card in 2022 for the Port Jeff Harbor complex along with 38 other embayments around Long Island Sound both in New York and Connecticut. Sign up for our email list to get the new report card when it is complete.

To learn more about the Unified Water Study, click here.

To see the 2018 or 2020 Long Island Sound Report Card, click on the photo.