This story was originally featured on November 1, 2023 in PittWire
The Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education, and Outreach (Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory) released an interactive site on Pittsburgh's Three Rivers and Their Tributaries, the culmination of a yearslong data collection effort.
This project, which was funded by the University of Pittsburgh Year of Engagement, was based on findings in the Community Consensus Report, including a lack of data on legacy contamination from historical industrial pollution and water quality in tributaries draining to the Three Rivers. The team of Pitt researchers collected 100 samples from 25 locations from the tributaries that feed the Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny rivers from August 2021 to May 2022.
Visit the site to see the results and analysis of their sampling efforts, including an interactive map that makes it easy to explore the data yourself.