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Cooma Region Waterwatch is part of a national community water quality monitoring program that brings people together from all parts of the community to raise awareness, educate, monitor, restore and protect our precious waterways.

Welcome to Cooma Region Waterwatch

What is Waterwatch? 

Waterwatchers on the Murrumbidgee at Scottsdale

Waterwatch involves local community catchment groups, Landcare, as well as residents, schools, utilities and landowners to regularly monitor the water quality of local creeks, wetlands, lake, rivers and stormwater drains.

Cooma Region Waterwatch includes the Upper Murrumbidgee River and its tributaries south of the ACT border. [See map]

Next Activity

  • Repeats every month on the third Saturday until Sun Jun 30 2013 .
    Sat, 19/05/2012 - 12:00am - Sun, 20/05/2012 - 12:00pm

    Cooma Region Waterwatch volunteers monitor sites on the third weekend of each month along the Cooma, Cooma Back and Rock Flat Creeks and the Numeralla, Bredbo, Kybeyan, Badja and Murrumbidgee Rivers. Monitoring takes about 30 minutes at the site depending on what is being tested, after some preliminary set up beforehand.
    Some of these sites are currently being monitored by Antia, so if anyone has an interest in taking up Waterwatch along these streams, please contact Antia on 6452 3178 or 0429 778 633 or by emails at antia@...

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