Document Category: Arlington
| Title | Summary | Categories | Link | hf:doc_categories |
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| Better Know a CSO | A Tour of the Alewife Brook Combined Sewer Outfalls From our CSOs 101 Course … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Climate Change, CSOs, EPA, Flooding | arlington belmont cambridge climate-change csos epa flooding | |
| kayaking Broadway Bridge 09-07-2024 | On Alewife Brook, behind Dilboy Park, under the Broadway Bridge, kayaking through a mass of … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, Somerville | arlington cambridge csos somerville | |
| Alewife Sewage Pollution Flooding | During heavy rainstorms, the Alewife Brook floods into the parks, yards, and houses of area residents in Environmental Justice Communities. The flood water contains hazardous sewage that is dumped into the Brook from the active Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) owned by Cambridge, Somerville, and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA). Climate change, with its wetter rainy seasons, more intense storms, and sea level rise, is expected to increase the severity and frequency of these events. MWRA’s sewer infrastructure is failing to meet capacity during many rains, causing hazardous sewage pollution discharges. In 2023, Alewife Brook flooded repeatedly, overtopping its banks and inundating the Greenway of Alewife Brook Reservation State Park with untreated Combined Sewer Overflow discharges of human and industrial waste. Area residents from Somerville, Cambridge, and Arlington unknowingly bicycled, jogged, and pushed baby strollers through untreated sewage flood water in their state park. The Alewife Greenway Path is a heavily used transportation and recreation corridor that runs through multiple Environmental Justice neighborhoods. The Alewife Greenway Path is on DCR land and it links Medford, Somerville, and Arlington pedestrians and cyclists to the Alewife Red Line T stop. | Arlington, Cambridge, Climate Change, CSOs, EPA, Flooding, MassDEP, MDC and DCR, MWRA, Somerville | arlington cambridge climate-change csos epa flooding dep mdc-and-dcr mwra somerville | |
| MyWRA Alewife Brook Watershed Map | from Alewife Brook CSOs 101 course material thank you to Mystic River Watershed … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, MDC and DCR, MyRWA, Somerville | arlington belmont cambridge mdc-and-dcr myrwa somerville | |
| MassDEP 2024 Draft Water Quality Variance to Allow for CSO discharges to Alewife Brook | This is MassDEP’s 2024 draft of the Water Quality Variance for Alewife Brook, which would … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, CSOs, EPA, MassDEP, MWRA, Somerville | arlington belmont cambridge csos epa dep mwra somerville | |
| MWRA Joint Press Release April 2023 | Dated April 14th, 2023 Joint Press Release APRIL 2023 Alewife Brook/Upper Mystic Combined Sewer Overflow … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, CSOs, MWRA, Somerville | arlington belmont cambridge csos mwra somerville | |
| FUNDING REQUEST: Alewife Brook Hydraulic Study for Climate Resilience and Flood Mitigation | Alewife Brook Hydraulic Study for Climate Resilience and Flood Mitigation in Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, and … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Climate Change, Flooding, Somerville | arlington belmont cambridge climate-change flooding somerville | |
| MWRA CSO MAP | This is the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority map from 2016, which we believe has not … | Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, CSOs, MWRA, Somerville | arlington belmont cambridge csos mwra somerville | |
| Spy Pond Stormwater Capture Feasibility Study, 2020 | “The overall goal of this feasibility study is to estimate the potential benefits of operating … | Arlington, Flooding, Stormwater | arlington flooding stormwater | |
| 1953 MDC Spy Pond Report | … | Arlington, Historical, MDC and DCR | arlington historical mdc-and-dcr | |
| 1978 MAPC Boston Area Waste Treatment Management Plan | … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, Flooding, Historical, Somerville, Stormwater | arlington cambridge csos flooding historical somerville stormwater | |
| MWRA Final CSO Performance Assessment Hearing Notification | Massachusetts Water Resources Authority PRESS RELEASE Date: January 6, 2022 Contact: Ria Convery (617) 788-1105, ria.convery@mwra.com … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, EPA, Legal, MassDEP, MWRA, Somerville | arlington cambridge csos epa legal dep mwra somerville | |
| MWRA 2021 Final CSO Performance Assessment | MWRA CSO Report is Unfair to Alewife’s Environmental Justice Populations On December 30, 2021, the … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, MWRA, Somerville, Stormwater | arlington cambridge csos mwra somerville stormwater | |
| United States v. Metropolitan District Commission July 2021 | Civil Action 83-1614-RGS United States District Court, District of Massachusetts United States v. Metropolitan District … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, EPA, Legal, MWRA, Somerville | arlington cambridge csos epa legal mwra somerville | |
| MPC 1904 Report on Improvement of the Upper Mystic and Alewife by John R Freeman | 1904 Metropolitan Parks Commission Report on Alewife Improvements, including tidal gates and channelization of the … | Arlington, Cambridge, Flooding, Historical, Somerville | arlington cambridge flooding historical somerville | |
| MDC’s 2003 Alewife Master Plan Map North | This is the MDC (rebranded as DCR) map of the Arlington and Somerville half of … | Arlington, MDC and DCR, Somerville | arlington mdc-and-dcr somerville | |
| MDC 2003 Master Plan Map South | This is the Cambridge half of the MDC (rebranded DCR) 2003 Master Plan Map … | Arlington, Cambridge, Flooding, Green Infrastructure, MDC and DCR | arlington cambridge flooding green-infrastructure mdc-and-dcr |