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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
This film is dedicated to every member of the NSRWA who has worked to improve our watershed over the past 50 years and to ensure that the next generation will have a natural world they can depend on. Join us at NSRWA.org. Click here to make a gift today to protect local waters. Your tax-deductible […]
Usually, on November 1st every year, 607 acres of shellfish beds on the North and South Rivers are declared open for recreational harvest, but not so this year. On October 28th the shellfish beds in the North and South Rivers were closed, possibly indefinitely, due to a federal regulation that has recently been enforced in […]
Sally Caverly is a 30 plus year resident of the South Shore; she raised her three daughters by Duxbury Bay and lived, more recently, on a retired dairy farm by the North River in Marshfield and across from a working cranberry bog Scituate. She values maintaining the unique character of our communities through conservation and […]