Salt River Watershed Watch Sponsors

Salt River Watershed Watch Sponsors

Salt River Watershed Watch exclusively uses volunteers for administration, training, and volunteer and equipment coordination. However, the program requires cash for equipment and lab tests. We are grateful for the contributions of these organizations:, to the Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District for their financial and technical support, the Virginia Environmental Endowment Fund for the financial support, EarthForce for the financial support, the University of Louisville for their administrative and technical support, and to the Water Watch program of the Kentucky Division of Water for help with data coordination, quality assurance, and training curricula.

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Watershed Watch Program

The Watershed Watch Program is a statewide effort to organize and support volunteers interested in protecting Kentucky’s waters. Statewide over 6,000 volunteers have been trained to conduct water quality monitoring and improve their development skills, and supported to become advocates locally and statewide for improved water quality. Volunteers collect data at over 700 sites statewide. The state is divided into 8 major watersheds, including the Salt River.

Volunteers attend a one-day training course to learn how to take chemical samples, assess biological diversity, and conduct a habitat assessment. Volunteers working as a team are provided sampling equipment. Each year volunteers conduct water sampling 3 times: spring, summer and fall. The data collected from across the state are compiled and analyzed to identify streams that may need remediation, or in the case of streams exhibiting high quality, protection.

The data is provided to the Kentucky Division of Water as well as local governments. A number of local communities have initiated plans to protect their streams based on volunteer data and advocacy.

Salt River watershed

The Salt River watershed, including some tributaries that flow directly into the Ohio River, covers 17 counties draining 1200 square miles. The Salt River originates near Danville, flows north 30 miles to Lawrenceburg, and then flows 70 miles west through Taylorsville and empties into the Ohio River at West Point. Major tributaries include:

 Chaplin River

 Rolling Fork

 Beech Fork

 Floyds Fork

 Guist Creek

And some of the major tributaries to the Ohio River include:

 Harrods Creek

 Beargrass Creek

 Doe Run

 Otter Creek

 Sinking Creek

How Can You Participate?

Your participation is needed as a monitor volunteer, organizer, trainer or expert advisor.

You may sign up for training using the form below, or electronically at

Everyone can be a volunteer monitor. Trainers assume only that you can count to 10, tell the difference between blue and green, and know how to fill up a bottle.

 April 6, UofL Shelby Campus, Louisville

 April 13, Bernheim Forest

 April 14, Lawrenceburg Public Library

 April 20, Midway

 May 18, July 13 and September 13

Sampling throughout the basin

 May 1-June 8, Biological/Habitat Assess

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Mail to: PO Box 32, Port Royal, KY 40058