The City of Austin
Austin Youth River Watch was designed as a joint venture of LCRA and the City of Austin. Ever since, our primary sources of financial support have been Austin Water Utility and the City’s Watershed Protection Department. These competitive contracts have allowed us to achieve nearly 20 years of success. But our partnership doesn’t end there: River Watch regularly partners with scientists and educators from the City on spill detection, teacher trainings, public presentations, and more.
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Lower Colorado River Authority’s Colorado River Watch Network
Since our inception, LCRA has provided critical training and equipment to make our water-quality monitoring efforts possible. Every River Watch student must learn and follow the rigorous scientific protocols developed by LCRA’s Colorado River Watch Network program. LCRA also manages the water-quality data that our River Watchers collect — no small task! Our data are integrated with other data sets statewide, and are used by local, state, and national scientists and decision makers.
Special Friends of River Watch
We are lucky to have the following friends to partner with us and support us through donations of time, money, equipment, and more:
Kevin Anderson and the Center for Environmental Research; the Austin Community Foundation; the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District; Double Dave’s Pizza on Duval; Charles Freeman; David Greene; Sara Hilgers; Greg Johnson; Dave Kettler of Kettler Roofing; REI; Texas Mutual Insurance Company; the Texas Natural History Collections (especially Dean Hendrickson and his team with the Fishes of Texas) at UT-Austin’s Texas Natural Science Center; Texas Nature Trackers; TreeFolks; Thomas Welsh; Zilker Park Boat Rentals
