From the Boston Globe’s Green Blog: Oysters help clean the Charles River. Oysters eat silt, in addition to the phytoplankton that drift in the currents. As they eat, they also ingest some of the bacteria and organic compounds contained in sewer overflow, which Jay said runs untreated into the Charles from houses and streets during [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Massachusetts Oyster Project
Posted in Paddling, tagged Massachusetts Oyster Project on October 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CRWA Annual Meeting
Posted in Paddling on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Charles River Watershed Association is having their annual meeting and awards dinner on November 19, 2008 at the Newton Marriot Hotel (along the banks of the Charles). The featured speaker will be Dr. Sarah Slaughter, coordinator of the MIT Sloan School of Management Sustainability Business Laboratory and the Sloan Sustainability Initiative, who will present [...]
Bellingham Meadows
Posted in Bellingham, Charles River on October 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Bellingham Meadows are part of the Natural Valley Storage Project. The Army Corps of Engineers uses stategic areas of wetlands along the Charles River to slow the progress of flood waters headed to Boston. Sensibly, the Army Corp recognized the ability of wetlands to hold back flood waters and have preserved 7800 wetland acres [...]
Elm Bank and the Bays Region of the Charles River
Posted in Charles River, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was another beautifully warm and sunny October day, so I went back to the Charles River. I put in just downstream from the South Natick Dam. A little way downstream, I came across the beautiful Cheney Bridge spanning the river. The Cheney bridge provides access to Elm Bank, a state-owned property with two miles [...]
Hemlock Gorge
Posted in Charles River, Needham, Newton, Wellesley on October 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Unlike the rather pristine Stop River Confluence area of the Charles River, the Hemlock Gorge section is more urban, passing houses, factories and highways. I launched from Nahanton Park in Newton. There was plenty of parking here. There was a dock at the park which made the launch very easy. This park is where the [...]
Stop River Confluence on the Charles River
Posted in Charles River, Medfield, Millis on October 10, 2008 | 14 Comments »
It has been a long time since I have been in the kayak. Given my current free time, I thought it would it would be a great activity on a beautiful fall day. I have read that the Stop River Confluence area between Millis and Medfield is a beautiful stretch of the river. It certainly [...]
