Document Category: Somerville
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| MassDEP’s 11-17-2025 letter to MWRA Board | Based on the information presented at the October 29 meeting, MassDEP is concerned that Recommended … | Cambridge, CSOs, MassDEP, MWRA, Somerville | cambridge csos dep mwra somerville | |
| 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 | |
| Typical Year Rainfall Analysis for Cambridge-Somerville-MWRA Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Plans | Development of Future Typical Year of Rainfall Technical Information in Support of the December 15th … | Cambridge, Climate Change, CSOs, MWRA, Somerville | cambridge climate-change csos mwra somerville | |
| Alewife CSO Permittees Request Extension | The 2019 Alewife Brook CSO Variances (permits to pollute through sewage pollution discharges) expire on … | Cambridge, Climate Change, CSOs, MassDEP, MWRA, Somerville | cambridge climate-change csos dep mwra somerville | |
| EPA response to Draft Scope, sent to Somerville | This is the EPA’s response to Somerville’s new CSO control plan “draft … | Climate Change, CSOs, EPA, Green Infrastructure, MDC and DCR, Somerville, Stormwater | climate-change csos epa green-infrastructure mdc-and-dcr somerville stormwater | |
| Somerville Updated CSO Control Plan Scope of Work and Schedule 04/01/2022 | … | CSOs, Somerville | csos somerville | |
| 1978 MAPC Boston Area Waste Treatment Management Plan | … | Arlington, Cambridge, CSOs, Flooding, Historical, Somerville, Stormwater | arlington cambridge csos flooding historical somerville stormwater | |
| SOM001A Tannery Brook Area | … | Cambridge, Somerville | cambridge somerville | |
| SOM001A Tannery Brook 1873 Atlas Detail | This is a cool image of the Tannery Brook, taken from the 1873 … | Cambridge, CSOs, Somerville | cambridge csos somerville | |
| Somerville Stormwater Map | Dated June 15, 2020. Awesome map of Somerville stormwater, combined system, and sanitary system. Includes: … | CSOs, Somerville, Stormwater | csos 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 | |
| Somerville’s IDDE Stormwater MS4 Plan, June 2020 | Somerville’s top six worst stormwater outfalls discharge into the Alewife … | EPA, Somerville, Stormwater | epa somerville stormwater | |
| Somerville Stormwater Management Map, June 2020 | Stormwater Management Map. Includes: Storm Discharge Points, CSO Outfalls, Stormwater Manholes, Sanitary and Combined Manholes, … | CSOs, Somerville, Stormwater | csos somerville stormwater | |
| MWRA BIANNUAL COMPLIANCE AND PROGRESS REPORT AS OF JUNE 25, 2021 | CIVIL ACTION No. 85-0489-RGS UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES … | Cambridge, CSOs, EPA, Legal, MassDEP, MDC and DCR, MWRA, Somerville, Stormwater | cambridge csos epa legal dep mdc-and-dcr 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 | |
| Court Case 2016 Document, including Compliance Order 239, USA v. MDC & CLF v. MDC | Doug Foy, Esq., director of the Conservation Law Foundation, who brought the groundbreaking Boston Harbor Clean-up lawsuit, probably quoting an ubran sociologist, said, “A great city had three characteristics: It had world-renown cultural and educational institutions. It had enduring distinctive residential neighborhoods, and it had a body of water that it embraced.” | Cambridge, Climate Change, CSOs, EPA, Green Infrastructure, Legal, MassDEP, MDC and DCR, MWRA, Somerville | cambridge climate-change csos epa green-infrastructure legal dep mdc-and-dcr mwra somerville | |
| Somerville’s 2020 Stormwater Management Plan | This document outlines the stormwater management practices that are currently in place and ones that … | EPA, Legal, Somerville, Stormwater | epa legal somerville stormwater | |
| Somerville’s 2017 Infrastructure Presentation | New projects described here include combined sewer separation, flood control are encouraging. Interesting data about … | Climate Change, CSOs, Flooding, Green Infrastructure, Historical, Somerville | climate-change csos flooding green-infrastructure 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 |