Public Notification of Sewer Discharges to Surface Waters Now the Law Last week we asked you to send an email or call Governor Baker encouraging him to sign a bill that would require the public to be notified if there were spills of untreated sewage into our waterways. On Tuesday January 12, 2021, Governor Baker […]
Sediment movement and monitoring after a dam removal One of the impacts of a dam in a stream is that it holds back sediment. The sediment accumulates behind the dam instead of moving slowly downstream. This starves the area downstream of smaller particles and can result in a rockier habitat than is appropriate for the […]
Thank you for being part of our NSRWA community! Together, we were able to protect local waters throughout a very challenging year. Last year, we educated more than 1,000 youth about water through online environmental education programs, reached more than 140,000 people through online and print media, connected nearly 1,200 residents with the outdoors through […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent As challenging a year as it was, one of the upsides of 2020 was that it gave us increased opportunities to spend time outdoors. We are so fortunate, here on the South Shore, to have a seemingly endless supply of parks, preserves, and conservation areas. Last year each of these […]
This year may not have been what we planned, but there were many silver linings in the NSRWA’s 50th anniversary year. Despite the pandemic, the NSRWA’s work to protect our waters continued and perhaps became even more meaningful as the pandemic brought people closer to nature. Getting outdoors became “in” this year as the outdoors […]
By Samantha Woods NSRWA Executive Director My very wry husband often says to me I would be out of jail by now if I had just blown up the dams in our rivers with some C4 instead of taking the longer but higher road of removing them through the proper channels. But, part of the […]
This spring we conducted our usual volunteer herring counts at the Veterans Memorial Park on the South River and supplemented those with the installation of a camera in the ladder that we hoped would add to our dataset, especially to identify fish that might be migrating early or late in the day or at night, […]
People Protect What They Love and Know By Jim Glinski, Scituate Since its founding in 1970, educating and engaging the public to restore and protect our local waters has been a primary goal because people will only protect what they love and they only love what they know. Over the past five decades, the NSRWA […]
The Peterson Pond Dam removal behind the Hanover Mall was completed just under two weeks ago, a process that took under four weeks from start to finish. The actual physical removal of a dam often happens fast, but the process of getting there can be long, especially for a project like the Third Herring Brook […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent In this twelfth and final month of its 50 Places to Explore Contest, NSRWA features the town of Whitman. Settled in 1670 but not incorporated until 1875, Whitman is famous for being the place where Ruth Graves Wakefield invented the Toll House cookie. The inn was lost to fire in […]