Alewife Earth Day 2026
HUGE SUCCESS – our best Earth Day cleanup! In collaboration with Department of Conservation & Recreation, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and Green Cambridge. 213 volunteers removed 150 bags of trash, 2 car bumpers, a hub cap, & 2 abandoned campsites. All of which filled 4 full DCR truckloads & required the HAZMAT unit! Thank […]
Alewife CSOs made National News on Earth Day
David Stoff and Ann McDonald, activists, look out at the water in the Alewife Brook Reservation by a sewage outfall on Friday, March 13, 2026, in Cambridge, Mass. (Lucie McCormick/MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing via AP) Read the AP story here. Read the NBC story here. Washington Post here. Boston Herald here. U.S News […]
Terrific news from the State House on Earth Day
Senator Pat Jehlen sponsored a $5 million “Alewife Brook CSOs” Amendment to the State’s Environmental Bond Bill, called “An Act to Build Resilience for Massachusetts Communities.” Our hope is that money is spent on developing the Alewife Brook Community Sewage Elimination Plan. Let’s also invest in Green Stormwater Infrastructure on DCR parkland, to support complete sewer […]
Funding the Plan to Eliminate Sewage Pollution
MWRA Was Created to Solve This Regional Problem & Using Its Funding Lowers the Total Cost The Origins of the MWRA In 1984, as a result of the Boston Harbor Cleanup Court Case, the Legislature created the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to tackle the region’s greatest environmental crisis – sewage pollution, sewer infrastructure failures, […]
Earth Day 2026 Alewife Path Clean-up & CSO Tour
Join us at 10 am on Saturday morning, April 25th for our Earth Day Alewife Greenway Path Clean-Up and CSO Tour. We will gather trash along the path next to the brook. While we’re there, we’ll tour the Combined Sewer Outfalls and the Concrete Sewage Death Channel. We’ll discuss what we’re doing together, to make Alewife Brook […]
Good news, bad news, and the community solution.
The good news is MONEY and community support. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority voted in favor of a commitment of $340 million at Alewife Brook. That is a solid starting point for the early draft plan at Alewife Brook. We would not have received this financial commitment without community support, from folks like you. Thank […]
Community CSO Plan
The Community CSO Plan: Eliminates health risks of exposure to untreated CSOs. Is Resilient to Climate Change impacts. Reduces flooding. Improves water quality. Increases capacity in the local and regional sewer system by removing large volumes of stormwater from MWRA’s sewers. Save the Alewife Brook is happy to provide our Community Sewage Pollution Elimination Plan, […]
Make Your Voice Heard!
Great news! Thousands of messages were sent to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority Board of Directors, urging the MWRA to eliminate sewage pollution in our rivers. Later, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection rejected MWRA’s terrible plans to forever dump sewage in our rivers. On February 4th, the MWRA Board of Directors will meet to vote […]