Environmental Services
Hood-CCWS offers a range of watershed services supporting private citizens, not-for-profit organizations, homeowner associations, and government agencies.
Services we provide on a stand-alone and long-term contract basis:
Field Services:
- Water physical and chemical parameter sampling
- Benthic macroinvertebrates
- Harmful algal bloom (HAB) monitoring
- E. coli bacteria analysis
- Stream Embeddedness
- Lake Morphology
- Flow/Discharge measurements
- Storm-water event sampling
- Watershed Assessments
- Water and Air Temperature, long-term monitoring
- Trainings for community groups to collaborate on water quality monitoring design and implementation.
Laboratory Services:
The Hood-CCWS laboratory is equipped to conduct a variety of physical and chemical parameters. We are also able to provide general taxonomic identification of algal and cyanobacteria genera.
Contact us for a for list of parameters offered, pricing and more info.
Often, nonprofit environmental organizations require third-party evaluation of grant-sponsored programs. We can conduct such evaluations for projects that have both an environmental and social dimension.
This video summarizes our Lake Linganore field sampling, featuring our Summer 2025 student workers!: Hood Samples the Linganore Lakes
Client Projects
Sampling western MD tributaries for an acid mine drainage project with Potomac Riverkeeper Network.
Stream Temperature Data Logger Deployment for the City of Frederick.
Algal ID on State Lakes for MD-DNR.
Monthly sampling at the Linganore Lakes in New Market, MD.
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