Quality Assurance is crucial to the success of our monitoring.
Friends of the Bay's Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP) are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. The QAPP ensures that we are following strict protocols for our Open Water Body and our Stream & Outfall Water Quality Monitoring Program (WQMP) collection of data.

Download a Acrobat PDF of the current Open Water Body Quality Assurance Project Plan.
NOTE: This file is 7.2 MB and may take a while to download on a slow internet connection.

Download a Acrobat PDF of the current Stream & Outfall Quality Assurance Project Plan.
NOTE: This file is 14.5 MB and may take a while to download on a slow internet connection.
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To learn more about what and how we monitor click here.
If you would like to become one of our water quality monitoring volunteers, are interested in other ways of assisting in our effort to preserve and protect the waters of the Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor estuary, or want to report an activity that may be threatening the estuary/watershed please give us a call at 516-922-6666.