Red River Watershed Management Institute

The Red River Watershed Management Institute is located on the LSU in Shreveport campus in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Our primary focus is water quality issues within the Red River Watershed (New Mex., Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana) that affect our local Parish (County) areas of Caddo and Bossier, and the Corrizo-Wilcox aquifer, which is the source of many rural drinking water wells.

Our Institute is housed on the campus of LSUS, so we collaborate with many graduate and undergraduate students that are interested in projects in our area. We are also affiliated with the local levee boards, municipal water districts, water management and water resource boards, on water issues affecting the public. We also address K-12 programs about the water cycle, responsibilities, and uses of water.

The Institute has a few on-going monitoring programs, like monthly monitoring of aquifer levels, a RadNet air monitoring station (through the EPA), a lot of water quality measuring equipment, an analytical wet lab, and various deployment vehicles that we use as teaching tools.