"We must understand our rivers and their watersheds - the entire area of land draining to them - in order to protect and restore them. The interactive maps you can create with this tool will broaden and deepen appreciation and understanding of our watersheds."

Don Elder, President
River Network

"IMRivers is, without doubt, the most phenomenal interactive mapping program I have ever used. With one click of a button, I can see everything about a polluter or scenic location in my watershed. Permit #'s, pictures, video, and verbal descriptions all in one site. I am not a computer person and I can operate IMRivers with ease. My map is growing and will be a uniform data bank that anyone can visit, but with password security for my inner most files."

John L. Wathen
Hurricane Creekkeeper, AL


IMRivers Riverkeepers and Watershed Projects


Standard Maps


The Cahaba Blue Trail
http://imrivers.com/cahaba

This map not only helps acts as a guide to a trip to the Cahaba River, but also allows visitors to log in and report and pollution or waste spotted during their outting. This map site includes food and lodging sites, scenic spots, recreation facilties, and hikable trails.

The Chester River Association
http://imrivers.com/chesterriver

The CRA utilized both points and layers to organize it's information. It briefly describes the history and purpose of the Association and then the projects main focus. This sites uses point to mark Chaster River infor, Chester River tester sites, and Main Tester sites in conjunction with layers depicting different watershed boundaries.

Friends of Hurricane Creek Hurricane Creek
http://imrivers.com/hurricane

This site describes the current status of Hurricane Creek and the surrounding area. It includes examples of lost neighboring creeks due to irresponsible permitting, scenic spots in the area, recreational parks, and suspected polution sites.

Muddy Water Watch: Citizen Patrol
http://imrivers.com/ncmuddywaterwatch

This site maps a statewide initiative to help stem the tide of sediment-laden storm water runoff from entering North Carolina waterways. NC Riverkeepers are training volunteers how to monitor potential erosion and sediment violations. They hope to use the data and pictures collected to impact the government’s perception of the seriousness of the problem.

Pamlico-Tar River Foundation
http://imrivers.com/ptrf

This site maps different locations of interest in addition to all of the water sampling sites. It is used simultaneously as a site for visitors and community as well as for park services.

Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition
http://imrivers.com/prwc

PRWC uses the site to show all different types of things on the river. They direct the user to click the point that interests them to most and to then explore from there. Some examples are historical points, observation sites, and changes in surrounding land.

The San Diego River Park Foundation
http://imrivers.com/sandiego

This site is used to mark progress within the San Diego River Park in order to promote a healthy river and a healthy community. It involves the community in trash removal by enabling them to log in and mark any spot where they have seen trash. The Park staff then removes it and changes the point character. The site also labels active and inactive encampment sites.

South River Federation
http://imrivers.com/southriver

This site maps mostly sampling sites and locations of interest. These locations include recreational spots for tourists or community members, problem areas, and both curent and prospective restoration sites.


Chester River Association
http://www.imrivers.com/chesterriver

The CRA utilized both points and layers to organize it’s information. It briefly describes the history and purpose of the Association and then the projects main focus. This sites uses point to mark Chaster River infor, Chester River tester sites, and Main Tester sites in conjunction with layers depicting different watershed boundaries.


Sassafras River Association
http://www.imrivers.com/sassafrasriver/

The Upper Sassafras River site charts the spread of possibly toxic algae that is indigenous to the area. A growing abundance of these algae contributes to the loss of underwater grasses, shoreline and woodland erosion, and the endangerment of animals and even humans. This mapping project keeps record of all monitoring stations and sampling sites used to control the algae.


Customized Maps


Chatham High School Water Quality Project
http://www.communitymap.net/chatham/

Shows stream locations adopted by the Chatham students n order to monitor the water quality. Streams that ultimately drain into the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, into the Passaic River and the Passaic River itself were chosen because of their importance to the health of their local watershed.

Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership: Site 1
http://www.gismap.us/columbia2

Gathers contaminant data from river water, suspended and bed sediment, and fish tissue. It also provides sampling locations for the Bi-state Water Quality Program and the Estuary Partnership’s Ecosystem Monitoring Project.

Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership: Site 2
http://www.gismap.us/columbia3

This site uses digital video to map shoreline conditions.

The Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
How Clean is Your Water?
http://www.imrivers.org/pugetsoundkeeper

Members of the community can enter their location and then identify water quality concerns and water-dependent natural resources in their area. Informationis then supplied directing participants towards steps in improving existing water quality.

River Network
http://www.imrivernetwork.org

The River Network is a source that Waterkeepers can use to stay updated and aware of the more recent information. It contains facts and links to sites like the location of the River Network offices, River Network partners, National River rallys, and the River Heros.

South Branch Watershed Association
http://www.ilovegeography.net/sbwagmap5

This site allows volunteers and visitors to view the Association’s different water sampling sites. Each site has correlating descriptions, graphs, and photos depicting the its state.

IMRivers has provided a very easy-to-use tool for youth, watershed groups, and educators to show where they monitor, what they monitor and show their data on watershed conditions. I will show this to the people I work with in New Mexico to seek support for using this important tool for educating community members and policy makers"

Richard Schrader
River Source, NM




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