Classroom Resources: Water Education

We’ve made our 5th-grade water education materials available to teachers, students and parents during the COVID-19 school shutdown. The materials include slide shows, videos, and handouts about polluted stormwater runoff and water conservation. Please email Outreach Director, Nancy Fyler if you need additional materials or if you have any questions. Self-Paced Slide Show Presentations These […]

September 2019 CWMN Report

The Neponset River makes a comeback with better E. coli, Phosphorus, and Dissolved Oxygen levels in September.

Plan a Water Smart Garden

Flooding and droughts are getting more intense. For this reason, we should be planning our landscapes for weather extremes.

Use Greener Ice Melt

With a little forethought, you can reduce the need for de-icing chemicals and choose the safest alternatives.

Seen These Ducklings?

A new campaign, entitled “Think Blue Massachusetts” aims to create basic awareness of stormwater issues.

Milton Academy: Pine Tree Brook Brook Trout Habitat Assessment Program

By guest bloggers Natalie Wamester and Kalaria Okali, April 2018 Having lived in Milton for our entire lives, we thought we knew it well, but this year, in our Advanced Environmental Science at Milton Academy, we were able to study Milton through a new lens. We knew of Neponset River, mostly the estuary section; however, […]

Reducing Polluted Stormwater Runoff

We are reducing polluted stormwater runoff throughout the local communities across the Neponset Watershed with assistance from grants, partnerships, and volunteers.  When rain falls on hard surfaces it washes a number of pollutants into storm drains including: bacteria and parasites from pet waste chemicals from fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides Phosphorous from leaves and grass clippings snow/ice […]

New Rain Gardens at Stoughton School

The Joseph H. Gibbons Elementary School in Stoughton is slated to receive a major green infrastructure upgrade thanks to a partnership between the Stoughton Engineering Department, the Neponset River Watershed Association (NepRWA), and MassDEP. Two bioretention basins, an infiltration basin and and underground infiltration chamber, designed to collect and filter polluted stormwater runoff from the […]