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Water Quality Monitoring

CRC’s monitoring program identifies possible pollution events and ongoing sources of pollution, and also documents longer term water quality conditions.  Water quality is sampled on a monthly basis by CRC monitors at six locations along Chester Creek from West Goshen to Brookhaven. 

CRC’s data illustrates high nutrient loadings and related oxygen impacts from municipal point sources on Chester Creek.  To view CRC’s monitoring data, and related Widener studies, courtesy of Dr. John Davis, Widener University Department of Civil Engineering, click here.

Villanova University's Department of Engineering (Dr. Metin Duran) has been awarded funding by DEP and USGS to validate a new bacterial source tracking methodology ( FAME technology) which is ten times more cost effective than DNA analysis.  Villanova selected CRC and Goose Creek, with its high fecal coliform levels having been documented by CRC and DEP in the 2003-2004 study, as the case study for proving this methodology.  Aqua Pennsylvania is providing important technical support to Villanova and CRC in carrying on this study. 

CRC also does an annual biological assessment every June of the  East Branch at East Goshen Township's Chester Creek Restoration Site along Reservoir Road. These studies are currently forming the justification for a new grant application.