More than one hundred Plymouth residents engaged with Coalition Senior Restoration Ecologist Sara Quintal and Inter-Fluve geomorphologist Nick Nelson.
Autonomous loggers capture the fluctuation of data within the day, based on factors such as sunlight, wind, and tidal activity.
Removing remnant agricultural features would allow water to flow naturally through the site again, allowing expansion of more valuable salt marsh habitats and promoting greater biodiversity.
The team had doubled in size between its first and second year, in which it raised $5,000 for clean water in one triumphant swim.
Projects will benefit the Agawam River and Little Buttermilk Bay in Plymouth, Wareham, and Bourne.
The sampling is needed for permitting to move forward on the Buttonwood-to-Bay project to restore stream habitat.