CT has a new tool to monitor water quality in Long Island Sound

CT has a new tool to monitor water quality in Long Island Sound

State environment officials took to the water on Friday in a new 44-foot long boat that will monitor water quality issues across Long Island Sound. The boat is known as the RV Sound Outlook, RV standing for ‘research vessel’. It’ll collect water samples across the Sound, testing them for temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen levels, nitrogen levels, suspended solids and more. “Sort of like taking the Sound’s heartbeat and pulse,” said Katie Dy…