Doyle Park
After decades of neglect, the former Doyle Playground in Hyde Park is finally getting a facelift.
Reason and the River: Shade and Seclusion in Hyde Park
Shade and Seclusion in Hyde Park Blog #1 by Will Reason Few of the shoppers who congregate each weekend at the Stop & Shop® just off of Truman Parkway are aware that mere yards from where they’ve parked snakes a band of wild river, hiding its meandering course from the prying eyes of civilization. It […]
Green Team Outing on the Neponset
NepRWA staff spent a day with the Hyde Park Green Team and explored many different aspects of the River.
Remembering A Great Neighborhood Connector
It is with great sadness that we note the untimely passing of our friend, Barbara Baxter of Hyde Park.
Chilling at Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam
Here’s some pancake ice forming in the tailrace (below the Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam on the Milton/Hyde Park border on December 31, at about 5 degrees Fahrenheit. (A tailrace is a channel that carries water away from a water wheel, turbine, etc.) Not far downstream the river was completely iced over but here […]
Neponset River Fall Cleanup 2017
Over 150 people showed up on Sept. 23 to help with the Annual Neponset River Cleanup, including many community volunteers from Hyde Park and all across the watershed. It was a team effort We owe a lot of thanks to our cleanup volunteers, beginning with our Hyde Park planning committee and our incredible group of […]
Neponset River Fall Cleanup 2017
Over 150 people showed up on Sept. 23 to help with the Annual Neponset River Cleanup, including many community volunteers from Hyde Park and all across the watershed. It was a team effort We owe a lot of thanks to our cleanup volunteers, beginning with our Hyde Park planning committee and our incredible group of […]
Soft Open for Neponset Greenway
With little fanfare, the construction fences came down this past weekend, and the long awaited connection between Central Avenue and Mattapan Square was complete!
Photos: Hyde Park Paddle with Martha
Yesterday NepRWA Board Member Martha McDonough and I pushed off from Martini Shell Park on Truman Highway in Hyde Park to scope out cleanup sites for the fall. There were 26 goslings and 4 adults around the launch. Just past the 1st RR bridge there is a large channel-edge bar covered with river birch saplings. […]
Two cars dragged from Neponset in Hyde Park
It's rare to find a fully submerged car in a river, never mind two of them.
Photos: Urban Monsters on Mother Brook
Water testing with a macro lens reveals interesting subjects for our staff photographer.
Groundbreaking for Neponset Greenway
DCR breaks ground on the Neponset Greenway Bike Trail's "missing link" between Mattapan Square and Central Avenue in Milton.
Final Funding for Neponset Riverwalk
For decades, NepRWA and others in Quincy have longed for a “Riverwalk”, comparable to the Harborwalk and the Neponset Greenway in Boston. The first half of Quincy’s 3 mile long Neponset Riverwalk, beginning at the pile-supported gazebo at Adams Inn, were constructed over many years via NepRWA’s negotiation with private waterfront developers. Then, last year, […]
Photos: River Clean Up in Hyde Park
On Saturday Aug. 24, 2013, 115 volunteers assembled at 8:30 AM at the canoe launch near the Martini Shell at Truman Highway in Hyde Park to remove debris of all kinds from the bed of the adjacent Neponset River. Teams were dispatched by land and water to three locations: Stop & Shop, the Glenwood […]
Orphan Dam in Hyde Park
Recent development in Boston beside the Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam has made it more visible but no less problematic. If you’ve canoed the lower river, you know about the Tileston and Hollingsworth Dam–a formidable roadblock on the Milton/Hyde Park line at the former Bay State Paper complex, where the river falls about six feet […]