The NSRWA recently formed an Advocacy Council to guide the organization’s positions on relevant issues that face the health of waters in our region. The NSRWA has been a voice […]
Town Meeting Guide to Protect Your Waters
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 […]
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 […]
South River Restoration Moves Forward in Duxbury and Marshfield
NSRWA recently received grant funding to support further study of the removal of two dams on the South River. A total of $12,000 was awarded by the Baker-Polito Administration through […]
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 […]
South River Herring Can’t Get Past the Dam Fish Ladder!
In the spring, river herring migrate almost nine miles from Massachusetts Bay to the fish ladder on the South River at the Veterans Memorial Park dam in Marshfield in order […]
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 […]
South Shore Restoration Projects Increase Fish Habitat!
South Shore watershed associations, towns and their state and federal partners have been leaders in Massachusetts in improving stream connectivity through dam removals and cranberry bog restoration projects resulting in… […]
Ribbon Cutting Celebrates Removal of Tack Factory Dam
Nothing could stop the celebration of the removal of the Tack Factory Dam, especially not a little much needed rain! Project partners and friends of the rivers came together to […]