The water and weather monitoring station at Community Boating was installed in July 2012. Its primary objective is to support the Charles River Watershed Association’s bacterial water quality prediction model, but the data is also freely available to the public. The station monitors water temperature, air temperature, rainfall, wind speed, wind direction, barometric pressure, relative humidity, dewpoint, and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR). The data is downloaded to this website every 20 minutes using a telemetry package provided by Onset Computer Corp.