The Upper Merced River Watershed Council's Board of Directors is pleased to announce that its completion of the Bureau of Reclamation's 2021 WaterSmart Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase 1 Grant.

Ensuring water quality is an important Wild and Scenic River value. The Upper Merced River Watershed Council’s water quality monitoring program is a decades-long citizen science effort done in collaboration with federal agencies and nonprofit partners. Community volunteers participate in real scientific data collection to help monitor water quality along the Merced Wild and Scenic River.