Weekly Estuary Update
Greetings from the estuary! Below, we share events, initiatives, and training and collaboration opportunities scheduled to benefit the waters, ecosystems, and communities connected to the San Juan Bay estuary.
Save the date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 – Puerto Rico Water Quality Day
The island's largest citizen science event is back!
The seventeenth Puerto Rico Water Quality Day will be on Saturday, April 5, 2025, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am
General registration for the event will open during March 2025. Stay tuned to our updates and social media!
Join as a contributor
In the lead-up to Water Quality Day, we continue to call on collaborators to facilitate training workshops, deliver materials to participants, and conduct monitoring in public spaces. We will have an orientation meeting for collaborators on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Friends of the Lagoon Meeting
The Estuary invites you to the next Friends of the Lagoon meeting on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the Blue Lagoon event hall at Jaime Benítez Park in the Condado Lagoon Estuarine Nature Reserve, with virtual access available via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there! Get your virtual access link at [link missing]. estuary.org/events.
Support the Estuary with your refund
This new tax filing season, we encourage you to donate part of your refund to conservation and management efforts for the ecosystems of the San Juan Bay estuary.
Partners who wish to contribute to these efforts can do so by donating all or part of their reimbursement directly from their individual payroll account. This method is made possible by Law 48 of 2009, which established the Special Fund for the San Juan Bay Estuary.
Look for the option “Contribution to the Special Fund for the San Juan Bay Estuary”, which you will find on line 1B of the “Reimbursement” box of your form.
Our restoration, conservation, and management efforts are made possible by the donations, collaboration, and volunteer work of residents, businesses, institutions, and friends of the interconnected waterways that comprise the San Juan Bay Estuary watershed. The San Juan Bay Estuary is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that designs, implements, and monitors restoration efforts to improve water quality and associated ecosystems within the San Juan Bay estuary system and its watershed.
Learn about the different methods available to donate to the Estuary at estuary.org/donate/.
Job/Contract Opportunities
Recycle your Christmas tree
Properly recycle your natural Christmas tree with the Municipality of San Juan through the "Tree for Tree" program, a drive-through service where you can drop off your tree on Friday, January 10th and Saturday, January 11th, 2025, from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm at the recycling collection area by the Domenech Avenue entrance of the Pedrín Zorrilla Coliseum. Don't miss out!
Weekly bacteriological monitoring
Assessment conducted Thursday, January 9, 2025. We have a RED flag for County Lagoon. We recommend avoiding areas that exceeded the Beach Action Value water quality parameter of 70 CFU/100 ML. Remember to avoid the water during rain events.
