Monitoring Buoy Deployed in Buffalo River

Through a fruitful partnership involving Riverkeeper, RIT and Buffalo Public Schools, Water Monitoring Buoy # 1 was deployed this morning on the Buffalo River near the Seneca Street bridge. This experimental low-cost buoy will transmit temperature data at three depths to a receiver affixed to the roof of Southside Elementary School. South Park High School's notorious Labman even made an appearance during the receiver installation.

We plan to install two other buoys this season, on Caz Creek and Buffalo River. Additional measures, including turbidity, may eventually be added to the buoys. The real-time data collected by these buoys will be available for use by all students in the Buffalo Public School system. The buoys will help us to track trends and variations in the conditions of the tributaries and the River.