In August 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may issue a water quality variance for Alewife Brook to allow CSO sewage discharges to continue through 2029. Water quality variances for Alewife Brook have been issued for the last 25 years, since 1999. Discharge of sewage intoContinue reading “Alewife Brook Water Quality Variance: Flaws and Solutions”
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We’re Speaking Truth to Power!
On March 11th, 2022, the Charles River Watershed Association, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and Save the Alewife Brook came together to speak with one voice to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Together, we collaborated on the following letter about the decades-long Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) work; weContinue reading “We’re Speaking Truth to Power!”