This link to the KRWW home page illustrates the 97 sub-basins of the Kentucky River.
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Kentucky River Watershed Watch is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization formed in 1997 through the cooperation of the Sierra Club, the Kentucky Waterways Alliance, and the Division of Water's Water Watch program. Its membership focuses water quality monitoring and improvement efforts within the Kentucky River Basin. The basin extends over much of the central and eastern portions of the state and is home to approximately 710,000 Kentuckians. The watershed includes all or parts of 42 counties and drains over 7,000 square miles, with a tributary network of more than 15,000 miles.

For purposes of watershed management, the Kentucky River Basin has been subdivided into 97 smaller sub-basins and watersheds using the USGS Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) classification system. Further details about the individual watersheds are provided in the Kentucky River Basin Management Plan.

KRWW has received funding from the Kentucky River Authority, Bluegrass PRIDE, Eastern Kentucky PRIDE, Kentucky Division of Water, Sierra Club, Brown-Forman and the Virginia Environmental Endowment.  It is also affiliated with the Kentucky Waterways Alliance. KRWW's goals include:

  • providing current data on general water quality conditions to local stream-based organizations working to protect their watershed;
  • providing widespread screening for potential water quality problems to resource management agencies;
  • providing auxiliary information to assist resource management agencies in meeting specific operational and management objectives; and
  • identifying specific impacts to water quality through targeted observations and measurements.
The KRWW Scientific Advisory Board developed a plan which describes water quality monitoring objectives, methods, parameters, quality assurance, and data management.

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