About the River and Watershed
Current Conditions

USGS Stream Gage Data
For information on USGS studies of the Ipswich River and links to real-time streamflow data, go to the United States Geological Survey's Ipswich River page.

You can also access streamflow data for difference points in the watershed directly:

• Ipswich River at Mill Street (Reading/North Reading) NEW GAGE!
• Martins Brook near North Reading NEW GAGE!
• Ipswich River at South Middleton
• Ipswich River at Willowdale Dam (Topsfield/Ipswich)

IPSWATCH
IRWA was one of eleven partner groups from the public, academic, and private sectors who worked to develop the "Ipswich-Parker Suburban Watershed Channel" (a.k.a. IPSWATCH), which coordinated environmental monitoring efforts in these two river basins.

IPSWATCH was funded by the Environmental Protection Agency's EMPACT Program. (EMPACT stands for "Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking.) The EMPACT Program strives to make timely, accurate, and understandable environmental information available to people across the country so that communities and individuals can make informed, day-to-day decision-making to protect their health and the environment.