Clean Ocean Access

2009 Water Testing Program

To learn more about our current program à 2009 Water Testing Procedure Guidelines Document

If you would like to help or have any ideas, please contact us at à Email Address

Schedule of events, updated as required à Schedule

2009 Clean Ocean Access Water Testing Results à Results

Background Information:

Clean Ocean Access started testing the water quality in Newport and Middletown in the fall of 2006 as part of a long term goal of permanent clean water along the Aquidneck Island Shoreline. In order to achieve this goal we need to change current policy decisions that designate Rhode Island Beaches as 3-month summer beaches and closed the rest of the time. So, our 2006 and 2007 program tested to bring public awareness to the water pollution issues and also to show that people use the ocean all year long for a wide variety of activities. You can see our results on the past events page from the main link. Our 2008 Program tested each week in the Newport Harbor, Newport Beaches and the Rocky coastline of Middletown. The goal of the current program is to establish baseline water quality at seven popular swimming locations that are not considered “designated swimming areas”. Our 2009 program is similar to 2008 however we expand our footprint into Source regions such as the Newport Moat and Middletown Esplanade.