Region 1: EPA New England
Mystic River
Mystic River Watershed Receives D for 2011
2011 Mystic River Watershed Report Card FAQs (PDF) (2 pp, 239K, about PDF)
Lynne Hamjian, from EPA and Patrick Herron and EK Khalsa from MyRWA at the 2011 Report Card Event.
The Mystic River Watershed is a collection of rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds that drain an area of approximately 76 square miles and 21 municipalities north of Boston. The Mystic River proper, which flows from the Mystic Lakes in Winchester and Arlington through Medford, Somerville, Everett, Charlestown and Chelsea to Boston Harbor, is one of the great urban rivers of New England. The river and the watershed that feeds it, served as an epicenter of much of the activity from which sprung settlement and economic activity in the colonies: mills, shipyards, and villages. Unfortunately, settlement and industrial activity have not always been kind to the Watershed.
Mystic River Watershed Initiative Video
May 2010
[50MB, 6:33 min.]
Music Provided By www.freeplaymusic.com.
The Mystic River Watershed Initiative is a collaborative effort with a goal to improve water quality and environmental conditions as well as create and protect open space and public access to the Mystic River and its tributaries through safe public pathways and access points. The Initiative is guided by a steering committee composed of 22 organizations including not-for-profit community groups, local, state, and federal governmental agencies. To hear thoughts, perspectives, and insight from some of the not-for-profit and municipal Steering Committee members, click the play video image.
Steering Committee Purpose and Structure (PDF) (4 pp, 30K, about PDF )
Mission and Priorities 2011-2012 (PDF) (4 pp, 177K, about PDF )
MOU between UMass Boston and EPA (PDF) (8 pp, 2.2MB, about PDF )
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