Friends meeting in March
Jennifer Ross
We had such a great turnout for our meeting in December and the goal is to
continue that enthusiasm. I would like to start planning a meeting for the
middle/end of March and wanted to solicit ideas in in terms of what people
would be interested in seeing for the program. I will try my best to get
some interesting speakers or presentations that are relevant to the
communities' interests. Please email me directly any ideas you may have. I
will be in touch soon with a date and time. Thanks! Jennifer
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Jennifer Ross
Watertown Riverfront Coordinator
303-250-6396
jr...@watertownfoundation.org
Aaron Dushku
I'm new to the group and sorry I this an old issue but my impression is that a huge polluter of the river is stormwater discharge.
Has there been any effort to catalog discharge points and work with the town on reducing impervious surfaces or incentivizing pervious ones?
Monitoring the flows at these points might be a way to gauge our impact on the issue over time.
Aaron Dushku
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Ernesta Kraczkiewicz
Ernesta Kraczkiewicz
Leslie Turek
Elise Leduc
I'm actually the person within Charles River Watershed Association that runs
the Volunteer Monthly Monitoring program. If you would like more information
or are interested in volunteering, please let me know.
Take care,
Elise
Elise Leduc
Rita Barron Fellow
Charles River Watershed Association
190 Park Road
Weston MA, 02493
781-788-0007 ext: 228
ele...@crwa.org
Aaron Dushku
Aaron
Aaron Dushku
Carole Berney
The talk listed below is part of a conference held March 11 and 12 in Springfield, by the Ecological Landscaping Association. Just thought it might be of interest to FOTWR...Carole
A New Program to Improve MA
Waterways
Alex Murray, MA Department of Transportation
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation
(MassDOT) has launched a new program, the “Impaired Waters Program”, to construct stormwater treatment for highway run-off into
Commonwealth waterways that the EPA has classified as “impaired waters”. Alex Murray will discuss how MassDOT is
implementing this effort statewide, building filtration basins, bio-filtration swales, and other site treatment features, as part of ongoing
road and bridge projects, as well as standalone stormwater retrofits.
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Zubrowski, Eileen
This sounds good. Would be good to consider it.
Eileen Z
Ernesta Kraczkiewicz
Ernesta
Elise Leduc
Aaron,
My apologies for the delayed response. We apparently had an issue with our email server on February 23d, and all emails that day were routed to a spam folder – so I’m just noticing this now.
As for volunteering, I completely understand if you don’t have the time because of your children to commit to sampling. But just to let you know, our sampling days are pre-scheduled and have nothing to do with storm events. Not sure if that changes your mind or not, but I just thought I’d clarify.
As for town government issues, we don’t have anything we’re specifically lobbying for in Watertown right now, but I can keep you in mind if/when something does come up.
As for a map of drainage discharge points for Watertown, I don’t have a map pre-made right now. So, I’d have to locate and download the data and create the map, which is completely possible, but would definitely take some time (so… I’m not sure if or when I would be able to get to that). If you’re truly interested, it might be worth contacting the Watertown DPW and seeing what kind of stock maps that have on hand.
Sorry again for the delay. Hope this answers your questions.
Take care,
Elise
Elise Leduc
Rita Barron Fellow
Charles River Watershed Association
190 Park Road
Weston MA, 02493
