The Third Herring Brook will be able to keep its “cool” with new protection provided from being designated a Cold Water Fishery Resource by the state of Massachusetts. Coldwater streams […]
More than 200 attend 2017 New Year’s Day Walk
An enthusiastic crowd of more than 200 gathered on New Year’s Day to visit the Third Herring Brook Dam Removal Site. This was NSRWA’s 23rd year of ringing in the […]
New Hope for Maintaining Streamflow in First Herring Brook
By George Humphrey, Scituate In collaboration with the Scituate Department of Public Works, the MassBays Program and the Massachusetts Division of Ecological Restoration, the NSRWA has been shepherding two projects […]
Planet Aid Donations to Benefit NSRWA
Sam Will is a 16 year old sophomore at Marshfield High School and has been a Boy Scouts since 1st grade. Now he is working towards the highest rank in […]
Hanover Mall Update
NSRWA Executive Director Samantha Woods attended the public forum on the Hanover Mall last week and spoke about how the NSRWA is working in partnership with the mall to remove the dam they own […]
Visiting the Waterfalls of Massachusetts
NATURE by Kezia Bacon, Correspondent Quite by accident, I visited two of our state’s Top Ten waterfalls this summer. One weekend in late June, I went to the Berkshires for […]
Letting the Rivers Flow
On Tuesday, June 19th, NSRWA hosted the premier showing of the new movie short “Letting the Rivers Flow” at the North River Theater in Norwell. Created and filmed by Lauren […]
Scituate Saving Water for People and the Brook
The NSRWA and MassBays have been working with the Town of Scituate since 2007 to find ways to save water and provide flow in the First Herring Brook, while also […]
Hunters Pond Dam Removal Celebrated
A dedication for the Hunters Pond Dam removal was held on September 6th at Mordecai Lincoln Road in Scituate. The former dam was a head-of-tide dam on Bound Brook, a […]
2018 MET Grants Will Help Restore the Rivers
Thanks to people purchasing the state’s three environmentally-themed specialty license plates, two of our rivers, the Third Herring Brook and the South River, will be receiving funding to help restore […]