Current Issues

News Articles

Community newspapers have a number of articles online. At Townonline.com, search for terms or names you are interested in.

Here is a sample of previous headlines (most articles are no longer available online):

Winter Brook site investigated (2/21/01)
Alewife pollution calls for regional clean-up effort (3/1/00)
Brook not a cesspool for Cambridge (2/25/00)
Study shows high levels of sewage in Alewife Brook (2/17/00)
Alewife protests building of Arthur D Little parking lot on floodplain (Sep99)
Alewife activists receive set back (Jan00)
A.D. Little parking lot opposition continues (Oct99)
Friends formed for Alewife (Oct99)
Alewife awareness, alliances growing (Nov99)
Mystic association setting aims (Nov99)
Aberjona tests part of Boston Harbor survey (Jul99)
Firm offers 16 flooding fixes (Aberjona) (Jul99)
Bike path rolls closer to fruition (Reading) (Oct99)
Cellucci's veto delays repairs to Upper Mystic Lake dam (Aug99)
Officials say key to keeping waterways clean is containing sewage overflows during floods (Aug99)
Malden River waits for its new life to begin; TeleCom City project aims at cleaning the river (Sep98)
City appoints Hormel/Mystic River Task Force (Oct99)
Task force eyes Malden River beautification (May99)

Invasive Species

Read Roger Frymire's Water Chestnut Report.
Japanese Knotweed under construction.
WREN has a page on Purple Loosestrife.
 

CSOs on Alewife Brook

Read our CSO page.
 

Development around Alewife

Several development projects are in planning stages around Alewife Reservation: the Mugar site, the WR Grace site, and McLean Hospital. (Mugar and McLean temporarily down.)
 

Oil Spills on Chelsea Creek

58,000 gallon oil spill on June 8, 2000; read the DEP page on the cleanup. On August 17, 2000, another 250 gallon spill occurred by the Sithe power plant, and on December 1 a third 600 gallon spill occurred at Global Revere Terminal.
 

Assembly Square/Mystic View

Mystic View Task Force keeps up on plans for redevelopment. View the Cecil Group Planning Study and the City's development plan (15 pages, 1.3MB).
 

MyRWA Awards

April 2001
Roger Frymire wins an EPA Environmental Merit Award!
 

November 2000
We have been selected to receive assistance from the National Park Service Rivers & Trails Program! Assistance will come in the form of NPS staff support for our program to strengthen greenways connections in the watershed. A total of ten projects throughout Massachusetts were selected.
 

January 2000
The Mystic River Watershed Association and the Neponset River Watershed Association have been awarded $40,000 from the State's Executive Office of Environmental Affairs to monitor water quality in our respective watersheds. One half of the funds will be used to establish the first watershed-wide volunteer-based water quality monitoring program in the Mystic. Sampling includes sites on the Aberjona River, Alewife Brook, Malden and Mystic Rivers.