Kenai Watershed Forum has received all laboratory results from its Summer 2026 Baseline Water Quality Monitoring event. The results are being prepared for upload to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Water Quality Exchange, a public data repository for water quality data. In the meantime, we want to share them with you!
Once the data is prepared, it will be integrated into an in-progress comprehensive summary report, similar to our previous report published in 2016.
We worked with three laboratories in Summer 2026:
- Soldotna Wastewater Treatment Plant – Soldotna WWTP provided analyses of Fecal Coliform.
Download Summer 2026 Soldotna WWTP Fecal Coliform Preliminary Results.
- Kenai Wastewater Treatment Plant – Kenai WWTP provided analyses of Total Suspended Solids.
Download Summer 2026 Kenai WWTP Total Suspended Solids Preliminary Results.
- SGS Laboratories, Anchorage – SGS provided analyses of all other substances monitored in Summer 2026, including nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, hydrocarbons, and metals like zinc, copper, lead, and others.
Download Summer 2026 SGS Preliminary Results for metals, hydrocarbons, and nutrients.
We are so extremely grateful for the City of Soldotna, City of Kenai, and SGS Laboratories for providing in-kind services that support this important work!
For questions about Summer 2026 water quality results, contact our Water Quality Coordinator, Benjamin Meyer. To get involved with future Baseline sampling events, contact our Hydrology Coordinator, Alie Minium. Thank you again to all the participants and volunteers who made this event happen!
To learn more about this project, visit our website section. We hope to see you on the river for our Spring 2027 event!
