Press Release Whitewashes MWRA’s Failure to Protect the Alewife Brook
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Cambridge, and Somerville have done it again, issuing a new press release about “progress” made in the Alewife Brook through their Sewage Pollution Control Plan. There’s been no progress for the Alewife! The untreated sewage pollution in the Alewife Brook has gotten worse, not better. And unless MWRA increases the […]
‘D’ is for Dredge.
A Grand Day on the Alewife Brook Measuring Sediment Depth The Environmental Protection Agency’s mention of dredging the Alewife Brook in its Response to the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s April 2022 Draft Scope for the new CSO Control Plan has revived the discussion about the role removing sediment from the Alewife Brook can play in […]
Exciting News from EPA
In response the new CSO (Combined Sewer Outfall) control plan “draft scopes”, the EPA has sent letters to MWRA, Somerville, and Cambridge, addressing every single one of our concerns, which are described in our “Alewife Brook Path to Zero Sewage Pollution“. What is a “draft scope”? A draft scope is framework for the planning of […]
Meetings with EPA & DEP & MWRA
Last week, the Charles River Watershed Association, the Mystic River Watershed Association, and Save the Alewife Brook had meetings with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to discuss our recent letter to the regulators. This comes at a time when new plans are coming due to eliminate combined sewer […]