Operation River Watch- We mark the 10th year anniversary of Operation River Watch, a volunteer organization made up largely of students from Viterbo University, Western Technical College and UW-La Crosse, which patrols Riverside Park in La Crosse on weekends in the early morning hours. The group was formed in response to a series of intoxicated young men drowning in the Mississippi River. Since it formed, the drowning deaths in Riverside Park have stopped.