Water chestnuts, trapa natans

Resources / Background

What is a water chestnut? How do they invade wetlands? Link to invasive species sites. Federal Invasive Species efforts is a good place to start.

Want to do it yourself? Read about the permitting process.

Harvest Reports

2002
Monthly reports: May

Year 2001 harvest report.
Monthly reports: July, June, May

Year 2000 harvest report

Seventh Annual Report on Alewife Subwatershed Water Chestnut Eradication Project, 2007

Original Plan and Proposal for the eradication project

Volunteers needed!

Do you like being on the water? Don't mind getting your hands wet? Want to help rid the Mystic of bad neighbors? No, not people, we're talking about water chestnuts. We need help pulling these weeds from the water where they grow uncontrollably and choke out other plant and aquatic life.

The good news is pulling water chestnuts carefully gets rid of them. The work will be performed this summer. It helps to have a boat, but we may be able to take hitchhikers. Please email or call Bruce at 781-391-2604.

What's this about?

The Mystic River Watershed Association is providing web space for an extensive Water Chestnut Eradication website here.

This web page is meant to serve multiple functions:

1. Describe current efforts in the Alewife Brook sub-watershed

2. Map all infestations in the Mystic watershed

3. Give data on other efforts in Charles and Connecticut Rivers

4. Collect links to other web resources in one place for reference