For the second year in a row, the NSRWA and the North River Commissioners were forced to obtain an earmark in the state’s budget to fund the annual operations of the North River Commission, which oversees the North River Scenic Protective Order – a state law that protects the North River Scenic corridor. Clearly this […]
The end of summer is quickly approaching, but we still have a few weeks of RiverWatch left. Our last monitoring excursion was a little different due to some complications at the lab. The sites that are usually tested for enterococcus weren’t visited this week, so we only collected samples at sites that are tested for […]
Students of Randolph Public School Summer Discovery Zone participated in the North and South Rivers Watershed Association F.I.S.H. School. Short for Fostering Innovative Science through Herring Counts in Schools, F.I.S.H. School allows students to discover the importance of a local keystone fish species called river herring. By participating in the program, the students were able […]
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent When summer turns hot and humid, you won’t find me in the woods. Although it can be wonderfully green and beautiful, it can also be buggy. Instead, as July turns to August, I much prefer a walk by the ocean, where there’s usually a breeze, and the temperature can be […]
Our Great River Racers are a hardy bunch! Despite 100 degree heat, a fun time was had by all at the 32nd annual race. This year there were 165 racers registered in 146 boats including stand up paddle boards. Some of the participants raced, and some took a leisurely paddle up the river. The fastest […]
This fall, in partnership with Hanover Crossing, Mass Division of Ecological Restoration, NOAA Habitat Conservation, and MassBays, we will be removing two weirs on the Third Herring Brook to restore fish passage and remove unnecessary infrastructure. The weirs are located approximately 1 mile downstream of the Jacobs Pond dam at Rt 123 and ¼ of […]
Article adapted with permission from Elizabeth Moulds of the Weir River Watershed. Summer is in full swing! The beautiful and hot weather has also kicked off a Level-2 Significant Drought in our region. Usually associated with parched landscapes out west, drought has increasingly affected the South Shore, as well as the state as a whole […]
Another two weeks have flown by, and we are back reporting on the quality of water within our watershed from last Tuesday’s sampling. We had another successful RiverWatch, with volunteers waking up at the crack of dawn on July 19, 2022 to collect samples from around the South Shore. Last week’s samples seem to indicate […]
Our Great River Racers are a hardy bunch! Despite 100 degree heat, a fun time was had by all at the 32nd annual race. This year there were 165 racers registered in 146 boats including stand up paddle boards. Some of the participants raced, and some took a leisurely paddle up the river. The fastest […]
This spring, over 100 of our devoted volunteers spent more than 230 hours watching and waiting for river herring to make their way upstream to their annual spawning locations. The yearly spring migration is an important journey for river herring that is made difficult by obstacles such as dams, drought, pollution, and predation. Volunteer efforts […]