White River Alliance

The River Assessment Field Teams (RAFTs) are individuals, family members, or small groups of friends, colleagues, or neighbors that are willing to donate time to help strategically assess local water quality. Data collected through this program will:

Help provide a more complete picture of our water quality by teasing out pollution hot spots and measuring trends over time
Help our Alliance direct educational and cost-share resources to areas with bad water quality
Help agencies like the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), and county health departments fill in knowledge gaps and address concerns
Citizen science is a powerful tool to understand environmental conditions, complement the work of our agencies, and help make positive change!