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Links

Rivers Council Member Agencies

RI Department of Administration

RI Department of Environmental Management

RI Coastal Resources Management Council

RI Economic Development Corporation

RI Water Resources Board

RI League of Cities & Towns

Other Watershed Related Agencies & Nonprofit Organizations

USEPA Watershed Academy

USEPA Impaired Waters and Total Mass Daily Loads Guidance Page

USEPA Handbook for Developing Watershed TMDLs (Draft, December 15, 2008)

USEPA Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters

USEPA Region 1 (New England)

USNPS John H Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor

USNPS Rivers and Trails Assistance Program

American Rivers (Washington DC)
American Rivers Dam Removal Program

Food and Water Watch (Washington DC)

Center for Watershed Protection (Maryland)

River Network (Oregon)

RIWRB-USGS Water Use & Availability Reports

RIDEM Water Quality Restoration Plans (TMDLs)

RIDEM Dam Inventory

RIDEM F&W Strategic Plan for the Restoration of Anadromous Fishes

RIDEM-CRMC RI Stormwater Design and Installation Standards Manual

RIDEM-CRMC RI Low Impact Development Site Planning and Design Guidance Manual

UCONN CLEAR First Impervious Cover TMDL in the Nation Report

Providence Water Supply Board

Narragansett Bay Commission

Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

RI Habitat Restoration Team Rivers Working Group

URI Coastal Institute

Narragansett Bay Watershed Counts (Indicators Project by URICI & NBEP)

RI Sea Grant

Audubon Society of RI

Save the Bay

Save the Bay Dam Safety & Removal Analysis & Recommendations

Coalition for Water Security

RI Blueways Alliance

Watershed-Drainage Basin Wikipedia Entry
River Wikipedia Entry
RI Rivers Wikipedia Entry
Narragansett Bay Wikipedia Entry

Stream Biology, Ecology & Hydrology Educational Resources
Stream Biology, Ecology & Hydrology Reading List
Stream Biology, Ecology & Hydrology Links
Stream Flow

RI Watershed Maps (URIGIS)

USFWS RI National Wildlife Refuge Complex

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service RI

USGS Water Science Glossary of Terms

USGS Natural Processes of Ground-water and Surface-water Interaction

USGS RI Gauging Stations Real Time & Historical Streamflow Data

Conversion equations for flow:
1 cubic foot per second = 0.6463 million gallons per day
1 cubic meter per second = 22.824 million gallons per day
1 million gallons per day = 1.5472 cubic feet per second
1 million gallons per day = 0.0438 cubic meter per second

Approximate Average Long Term Flow of Selected RI & MA Rivers
in millions of gallons per day
1 Blackstone, 970, Worcester & Burrillville to Pawtucket
2 Pawcatuck, 618, South Kingstown to Westerly
3 Taunton, 596, Taunton to Warren/Bristol/Tiverton
4 Pawtuxet, 343, Western Central RI to Cranston/Warwick
5 Ten Mile, 96, North Attleboro to East Providence
6 Woonasquatucket, 77, Smithfield to Providence
7 Usquepaug, 74, Exeter to Charlestown (Headwaters of Great Swamp)
8 Hunt, 57, North Kingstown to East Greenwich
9 Wood, 50, West Greenwich to Charlestown (Tributary of Pawcatuck)
10 Moshassuck, 36, Lincoln to Providence
11 Saugatucket, 22, North Kingstown to South Kingstown
12 Chipuxet, 21, Exeter/N Kingstown to S Kingstown (Headwaters of Great Swamp)
13 Beaver, 19, Exeter/Richmond to Charlestown (Tributary of Pawcatuck)
Notes:
a Kickemuit in East Bay and Narrow in West Bay are significantly tidal.
b Data is for approximating relative order of magnitude only.
GL

Twenty-three principal river stressor categories grouped into four themes

WATERSHED DISTURBANCES
Cropland
Impervious surfaces
Livestock density
Wetland disconnectivity

POLLUTION
Organic loading
Nitrogen loading
Phosphorus loading
Pesticide loading
Sediment loading
Mercury deposition
Soil salinization
Potential acidification
Thermal alteration

WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Consumptive water loss
River fragmentation
Flow disruption
Dam density
Human water stress
Agricultural water stress

BIOTIC FACTORS
Non-native fishes - number
Non-native fishes - percent
Fishing pressure
Aquaculture pressure

Source: Global threats to human water security and river diversity by C.J. Vorosmarty et al. Nature, September 30, 2010, Volume 467, Pages 555 to 561.

For links to watershed councils, go to "watershed councils" page.