EPA New England Topics
Urban Rivers
EPA New England has a history of focused urban waters work. As part of our support for urban river restoration, EPA New England annually donates water monitoring equipment through long-term loans to community groups throughout the region. Groups receiving this equipment agree to monitor their waters and share their data with EPA. For more information about this program, please contact Diane Switzer at switzer.diane@epa.gov.
We have also hosted a series of conferences and workshops focused on stormwater and illicit connections, water quality, sediments, public access, restoration, land conservation, and success stories. In addition, we are directly invested in our region's urban watersheds and have been focused on several watersheds throughout the region. Through this work, we remain in touch with the agency's focus on healthy watersheds.
See below for some of the important work being done right here in New England!
EPA New England
Mystic River Watershed Initiative
Learn more about EPA's efforts to work with stakeholders to restore and protect water quality and increase open space and public access in the Mystic River Watershed.
Charles River Watershed Initiative
Find out how EPA continues its work to clean up Boston's Charles River.
Stormwater and Permitting in New England
Learn how EPA works to reduce stormwater sources by issuing stormwater permits in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, promoting low impact development, and providing stormwater resources and guides.
Soak Up the Rain
An EPA New England campaign to raise awareness about the problem of stormwater and encourage citizen action to help reduce the polluted runoff that flows to our streams, lakes, rivers and coastlines.
Urban Environmental Program
This program seeks to provide assistance to communities to identify and prioritize environmental and public health problems, develop and implement strategies to restore and revitalize neighborhoods for urban residents, develop partnerships to build community-based capacity and infrastructure to assess, manage and resolve environmental challenges, as well as achieve measurable and sustainable improvements in urban communities that do not compromise environmental quality and public health.