Water quality monitoring isn’t just a rainy day job.
At each site each week, teams fix clogged pipes, check batteries, change out bottles, and mow around the
4’x3’x4’ metal equipment shelter. Every other week,
they also do a “routine grab,” collecting, filtering and
storing water in up to six shape- or color-coded
bottles for different lab tests. They also check that the
flow meters and other equipment are properly set to
accurately record information, and, if site conditions
have changed, they reprogram the computer. Read more. 

(Original Tarleton article)

Although TIAER has been around a long time (since 1991), they have 35 staff members plus a half dozen student workers, and averages $3.5 million of research a year, most Tarleton staff don't know much about it. Read more.

(Original Tarleton article)