Dated April 14th, 2023 Joint Press Release APRIL 2023 Alewife Brook/Upper Mystic Combined Sewer Overflow Control Progress Update
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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 Somerville, not less than $150,000 Alewife Brook, which borders Arlington, Cambridge, and Somerville, regularly overflows its banks, inundating residential areas that are home to multiple environmental justice communities. Untreated human and industrial waste discharged into the brook from combined sewerContinue reading “FUNDING REQUEST: Alewife Brook Hydraulic Study for Climate Resilience and Flood Mitigation”
MWRA CSO MAP
This is the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority map from 2016, which we believe has not changed as of 2023. It shows active CSOs as green dots. CSOs with 25-year level of control as orange dots, CSOs with treatment facilities as green dots with yellow outlines, and closed CSOs as red dots. There are six UNTREATEDContinue reading “MWRA CSO MAP”
Spy Pond Stormwater Capture Feasibility Study, 2020
“The overall goal of this feasibility study is to estimate the potential benefits of operating Spy Pond as a stormwater capture basin in order to reduce downstream peak flows that can cause flooding in neighboring communities along Alewife Brook. A secondary goal was to evaluate whether these operations could also provide benefits in terms ofContinue reading “Spy Pond Stormwater Capture Feasibility Study, 2020”
1953 MDC Spy Pond Report
1978 MAPC Boston Area Waste Treatment Management Plan
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 Public Briefing on MWRA’s CSO Post-Construction Monitoring and Performance Assessment, Final Report The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) will hold a virtual public briefing on the findings of its Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Post-Construction Monitoring and Performance Assessment on Thursday, FebruaryContinue reading “MWRA Final CSO Performance Assessment Hearing Notification”
MWRA 2021 Final CSO Performance Assessment
MWRA CSO Report is Unfair to Alewife’s Environmental Justice Populations On December 30, 2021, the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) published its anticipated Final CSO Performance Assessment, as part of a series of regulatory reports that have been submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. These reports areContinue reading “MWRA 2021 Final CSO Performance Assessment”
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 Commission Decided Jul 23, 2021
MDC 2003 Master Plan Map South
This is the Cambridge half of the MDC (rebranded DCR) 2003 Master Plan Map South.
MDC’s 2003 Alewife Master Plan Map North
This is the MDC (rebranded as DCR) map of the Arlington and Somerville half of the Alewife Master Plan.
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 Alewife to improve the mosquito / malaria problems. Remarkable documentation of regional community collaborative effort.