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Published bi-monthly by the Defense Fund Inc., a non-profit organization, founded in 1975, which works to protect and improve the aesthetic, economic, and recreational value of the Westport River Watershed in the towns of Westport, Dartmouth, Fall River, Freetown, Little Compton, Tiverton, Adamsville and their coastal environs on ,

Volume 10 Number 2 April-May 1987 triM^

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East Branch Below Hix Bridge

MA VE YOU SEEN TME EA GI^E ? Everyone knows our national symbol, of course, but few of us expect to find it roosting on the West Branch of the river. For several years now the word that the eagle, or eagles, is or are back, has flashed around the community, compelling people to drop what they are doing and converge on the upper reaches of the West Branch with binoculars and telescopes. Some have eagles thrust upon them. Jack Brayton, one of the most experienced eagle watchers, recently saw something flash past the window of his house on the east bank, and two young eagles landed in a large oak beside the house. He was able to study them for half an hour through his power telescope. In February an adult came down near his barn. He watched it fly into a tree, white head and tail gleaming, then glide away down the river. Over on Cornell Road Herb Hadfield was honored by a visit from an eagle at the woodland pond near his house. "Unbelievably big!" he says. Near the end of February Ginny and Bob Edgcomb spotted an adult and a juvenile (with dusky brown head and tail) devouring something on the ice near Great Island. They were joined by another watcher who told them he had gone up to the Quabbin Reservoir to see the rehabilitated eagles there; and as they watched, along came Jack Brayton with his telescope. Barbara and Richard Ostheimer were treated to the sight of an adult doing a spectacular three-point landing on the ice and skidding to a halt. Kathy and John Preston live at the Point, but the word "eagle" galvanizes them. When the Barnetts of Cornell Road phoned to tell them the eagle was having lunch on the ice of their cove, over they went. But the eagle was flown. When they got home, there was Jack Brayton on the phone announcing the arrival of two juveniles on the ice near his house. So it goes, and even those geographically remote from the TOWN MEETING TIME A SPECIAL, INSER^ T cont. page 2 ON WESTRORT'S ANNUAL. TOMN MEETING INSIDE -2­

river are part of the intelligence network. RE —SOL. VE HE A RING — —CL.EANUR IN J. 3SO P Note: Words in bold-face type are thoroughly defined and explained in boxed article on page

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported the findings of a Alden and Mary Wicks, whose house faces supplemental Remedial Investigation report the West Branch, report one of the most (RI) on the Re-Solve Superfund Cleanup site, dramatic and public of the adult eagle's at a public meeting held at the Southworth appearances. Early in the winter it landed Library in Dartmouth on March 11. in a large beech tree opposite the Manchester Before an audience of 30 concerned Restaurant in Adamsville; it emptied the citizens, Stephen Joyce, EPA project manager restaurant and stopped traffic in all for the clean-up, spoke of the history of directions. the Re-Solve site, the clean-up efforts to Bob Caron on Main Road, a biology date, the findings of the RI report and lecturer, has the broad view that there is a clean-up options the EPA is now evaluating. precarious balance between the immigrant Re-Solve, Inc. operated a solvent eagles and the native ospreys, who are their recycling and dumping site in a five-acre chief competitors for food. The ospreys, he area on North Hixville Road from 1956 to fears, may drive out the juveniles. 1980. The facility is in a highly sensitive According to the National Geographic area of the Westport River Watershed since it "Birds of North America" the bald eagle is drains into the East Branch of the Westport "seriously diminished in number due to River through the , Cornell Pond shooting, pesticides and human encroachment. and Lake Noquochoke (see illustration). Intense recovery programs appear to be The EPA spent $6 million removing 15,000 stabilizing populations in the east." This cubic yards of contaminated soil and is confirmed by Rob Marshall, Research sludge, beginning in September 1984 and Assistant at the Lloyd Center for ending in May 1985, when officials discovered Environmental Studies, who lives on River extensive contamination in deeper soils. This Road. He writes: "I have observed eagles finding led EPA to cease further clean-up on the West Branch throughout the winter. until the full extent of the contamination During one week in late February, I observed was determined. three (1 adult, 2 immatures) near Great The EPA found soils in the northeast Island. Their presence in our area is corner of the site to be contaminated with significant for it suggests that the efforts PCBs and solvents to a depth of 26 feet. of those trying to re-establish eagles PCB concentration in soils ranged from 10 to throughout their former range are paying off. 36,000 parts per million (ppm). It also shows that protection of the Soil contamination has ultimately Westport River is important not only to affected ground and surface water since local residents, but to a host of other organic and volatile organic compounds from organisms, including bald eagles and the the soil seep into ground waters which waterfowl and finfish these birds prey on." discharge into the Copicut River, Cornell — Ted Devlin (with apologies to Pond, Lake Noquochoke, and finally the eagle-watchers who were in Florida or Westport River. EPA has found high levels of otherwise unavailable for consultation). volatile organic compounds close to the Re-Solve site at Copicut River and Cornell pUr=Jr=Jr=Jr=Jr=Jr=Jf=Jr:^r=J^r^r=Jr^f^r=Jp=^ Pond with decreased contamination further south at Shingle Island River and Lake Noquochoke. COME TO THE WRDF RIVER DAY BENEFIT CONCERT PCBs and volatile organic compounds were TWO GREAT PERFORMANCES: CORMAC MCCARTHY— found in low concentrations in sediments in THE WICKFORD EXPRESS. FRIDAY JUNE 12, WESTPORT Copicut River and Cornell Pond. Seven fish HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM. $5 ADULTS, $3 UNDER 12 samples from the Copicut River and Cornell Pond revealed concentrations of PCBs <2 ppm, while a composite sample of redfin pickerel and American eel revealed PCB concentrations cont. page 3 -3­ TEM I K AND AL.L, IT S WORKS

Richard Hatch and his wife are among those residents of North Westport whose drinking water has been contaminated by the industrial pesticide known as Temik. Here is Mr. Hatch's reply to our request for an account of their experiences with the responsible government agency and the manufacturer. In December 1985 they received an answer from the state Department of Food and Agriculture to their request for an analysis of their well-water:

"Dear R. Hatch: This letter is to notify

-Hoquochoka you of the results of a water sample taken L>Ka from your private well. The water was analyzed for the pesticides alachlor (Lasso), aldicarb (Temik), carbofuran Map showing Re-Solve's location in (Furadon), dinoseb (Premerge), and oxyamyl the Westport River Watershed. EPA has (Vydate). The laboratory analysis has found contamination from volatile organic revealed positive results for the following: compounds in Copicut Reservoir, Cornell ALDICARB (Temik) Pond, Shingle Island River, and Lake Residue level in water 16.7 ppb Noquochoke. These waters ultimately feed Guideline 10.0 ppb into the East Branch of the Westport River. Detection limit 1.0 ppb

CARBOFURAN (Furadon) of 20 ppm. The maximum safe exposure level Residue level in water 3.2 ppb established by the Food and Drug Guideline 10.0 ppb Administration is 2 ppm. EPA and the Mass. Detection limit 0.2 ppb Dept. of Health have posted signs, printed in English and Portuguese, along the river, On. . . . you were notified by phone of warning against eating eels taken from these these results and it was recommended to you waters. not to drink or cook with water from that Besides eating contaminated fish, there source. It was further recommended that you are other human health risks such as direct seek an alternate water source for drinking contact with contaminated soil, skin contact and cooking purposes. . . . Enclosed you will from wading in affected waters, or drinking find further information about the pesticides contaminated water. Widespread contamination in your water." from organic compounds is present in The enclosure revealed the following: on-site ground water. Although EPA has not "Aldicarb is an insecticide manufactured by detected Re-Solve linked carcinogenic Union Carbide and sold under the trade name contaminants in any of its 56 sampled Temik. Aldicarb is highly toxic. Symptoms residential wells, samples of ground water of acute poisoning include perspiration, from off-site wells show the contaminant salivation, nausea, constriction of pupils plume has extended beyond site boundaries in and chest tightness. . . . As a carbonate a southeasterly direction. its effect is to inhibit chlorinesterases, EPA's choice of clean-up methods and which are involved in transmitting nerve procedures is dictated by the recent Super- impulses. (However, despite the above fund amendments. The procedures include the symptoms) Aldicarb has not been shown to be "preferred clean-up option feasibility study" carcinogenic, mutagenic, or to cause birth (which is scheduled for release in June), a defects in long-term animal studies. . . . five week public comment period on the These effects are rapidly reversible when feasibility study, and a review of the exposure ceases." preferred action. The EPA must negotiate Mr. Hatch's report continues: For three with the responsible parties (which by law months we depended on borrowing Jars of can take up to 4 months), design the clean-up water from neighbors. Eventually Union plan (which may take anywhere from ten months Carbide paid to instal a filter, which since to a year) and then begin the actual cleaning then has broken down, and as of now I have lip of the site. cont. page 6 been unable to connect with the proper party cont. page 7 -4­ VOL, UN TEER RROFIL.E : TED DEVL,IN Executive Director's Note: Ted Devi in, our retirement in 1975, as an editor of economic hardworking editor of the River News publications with Agriculture Canada. announced to me his intention to res ign as In 1971, Ted came to Westport to visit editor several months ago. I was sh ocked Louise Suffern Hudson, the art student he had and unhappy at the thought of losing one of met in 1929. Louise had become a permanent WRDF's hardest working volunteers, For the resident of the Point, where she had last two issues of the River News, I have established a home for herself and her refused to honor his resignation, bu t it is children. She and Ted were romantically hard to argue with a determined 75 y ear old married shortly after this visit. They who wants to spend more time on othe r lived in Ottawa until 1976, after which they pursuits. In honor of Ted, the Rive r News happily retired to their cottage in the woods staff has decided to inaugurate a se ries of where they continue to flourish. They are "Volunteer Profiles" with a look at Ted's both active members of the Westport Art Group life and work. and for two years, Ted was a most efficient president, helping to set up lectures and Ted Devlin, who (in the pa?t several engineer the building of the Art Group's new years has so ably edited the River News) was home. Eventually he offered his services to born in Ottawa in 1911, the son of one of the River Defense Fund where his expertise the city's leading merchants. He attended born of years of experience in communication upper Canada College in Toronto where he made him the perfect choice for editor of roomed with Robertson Davies, now Canada's the River News. Here all his skills were leading novelist.("We were rebels," Ted engaged: writing articles himself, lining up says. •; other writers on suggested subjects, seeing In 1929 he studied stage design at the to it that deadlines were met, proof-reading Gr-.nd Central School of Art in New York, and organizing material, often typing where he met a fellow student, Louise things himself and finally putting the whole Suffern, who spent her summers at Westport paper together like a jig saw puzzle with Point. every paragraph pleasingly arranged on the Ted returned to Canada with the idea of page before he took it to the printers. His becoming an architect, but when the Canadian love of the English language and his gentle Broadcasting Corporation was auditioning for insistence on its proper use was and is radio announcers, he was accepted, and always evident. In fact, Ted was a kind of abandoned architecture for newscasting and one man band as far as the production of the introducing concerts by the Toronto Symphony, paper was concerned. This work involved him the Mendelssohn Choir and the CBC String happily in the life of Westport and has Orchestra. When King George and Queen enabled him to work with scores of Elizabeth travelled across Canada just before like-minded people. Not the least of his the war, Ted's voice summarized each day's skills is that of giving courteous and events of the Royal Tour. One of his friends thoughtful attention to what his fellow and fellow-announcers, in the CBC Toronto workers say. studios, was the future boss of the Ponderosa He won't leave River News entirely—he Ranch, Lome Greene. plans to contribute occasional pieces to it. After the war he returned to radio, as a But the main job of assembling and producing writer and producer of documentary programs it will, he hopes, soon be in younger and about Canada for Radio Canada International, more vigorous hands. the world-wide shortwave service of the CBC. One of Ted's abiding preoccupations In their Montreal studios he worked for ten (beside the history of architecture) is years at producing programs that were still in putting the right words in the broadcast or distributed throughout the right order, and in doing battle for the English-speaking world. He returned to proper use of our language. As all his Ottawa in the mid-60's and worked first as friends know, this charming Canadian publicist and promotion officer for a gentlemen is a living example of this publishing firm, and then, until his ideal.— Janet Grindley

THE RIVER NEWS NEEDS NEW EDITORS, WRITERS, AND LAYOUT AND PASTEUP WORKERS IT'S REWARDING WORK AND A LOT OF FUN—CALL 636-3016 TO HELP OUT! -5­ THE GHR REPORT PEJSfTICIDE REFORM Editor's note: The Town of Westport, on the advice of the Shellfish Advisory Committee, The Audubon Society, contracted with the GHR Engineering Corp. of Environmental Lobby for Massachusetts, along New Bedford to study the relationship of with other environmental organizations, bacterial coliform contamination and private citizens, farm groups and rainfall patterns in the Westport River. legislators, testified at a hearing at the State House in Boston on Thursday March 12 concerning a Reform of the Massachusetts The final draft of the G.H.R. report Pesticide Control Act. The Westport River has finally reached the Town of Westport. The Defense Fund was present with Pete Lavigne Shellfish Advisory Committee recommended testifying on our behalf. acceptance of the report and have submitted the report to the Board of Selectmen for The purpose of the Act is to control use distribution. of pesticides in Massachusetts through The G.H.R. report is, to the best of our scientifically-sound pesticide registration and regulation. In addition, the legislation knowledge, the first to have studied rainfall calls for state endorsement of programs such events and the effects of rain on the as IPM (Integrated Pest Management) which Westport River estuary, The importance of would generate alternatives to pesticide use knowing the frequency of rain and the volume for farmers. of rain is in studying the bacteria levels A Hazard Review Committee (HRC) would be after a rainfall. established; its members would include, among When it rains there is surface runoff; the others, a representative of a local board of runoff contains coliform bacteria. If the health, a pesticide applicator and repre­ rain is heavy, one inch or more, the bacteria sentatives from government agencies. This level in the estuary increases. G.H.R, committee would conduct systematic reviews of measured the rainfall, took bacteria samples pesticide products, establish criteria for and made a determination as to how long the approval of new pesticide registrations, it took after the rain stopped for certain and prohibit registration of a product for river locations to cleanse themselves of the which there are insufficient data concerning bacteria. toxicity and public health effects. The Town now has certified laboratory proof of how long it takes tide cycles to Secretary of Environmental Affairs James clean the river of high levels of bacterial Hoyte testified that the passing of this Act was a top environmental priority for his contamination after a rainfall, A meeting agency as it pointed towards a much needed with the Department of Environmental Quality balance between quality of agriculture and Engineering has been requested by the health in our communities. Commissioner Selectmmen for sometime in the very near of Food and Agriculture Gus Schumacher also future. The Town's goal is to reach an testified in favor of the Act. agreement with DEQE whereby the town can Both Mass. Audubon and the Environmental manage its shellfish beds. The Town would Lobby of Mass. stressed that the continued, monitor the rainfall and if and when rainfall unregulated use of pesticides was far too exceeds the amount specified, then the Town costly in terms of human, animal and would close the area until water levels are environmental health for us not to strongly again clean. approve pesticide regulation and containment. A copy or copies of the GHR report will be Amendment suggestions included: creation located in the Town library and the WRDF of a program stressing research into Library for all interested citizens to concerning regulation of household and urban read. — Jack Owen (Jack Owen Is a member of pesticides since three times as many the Shellfish Advisory Committee.) pesticides are used in these areas (i.e. lawn care and bug proofing) as in agricultural settings; and requiring more stringent training and education of pesticide application personnel and IPM specialists. A final issue during the hearing was exemption of liability for farmers whose pesticide application had caused health and environmental hazards even though the farmer had properly observed application directions. Some felt farmers should remain liable, as the liability reminds the farmer of his or ) L»ur« Zef7an From "ECONEWS" cont. page 7 -6­ GUIDE TO RE-SOLVE TERMINOLOGY Three clean-up options being considered are removal of the contaminated soils to an SOLVENT: A substance which can dissolve offsite location in Arkansas, offsite or another substance thus forming a solution. onsite incineration, and permanent capping. Solvents are used in industrial cleaning The summary RI report estimates that 57,000 processes such as degreasing, in paints, cubic yards of soil are contaminated with and in pharmaceuticals. Many solvents can PCB concentrations of >10 ppm, with 4,700 be acutely toxic, and flammable. cubic yards contaminated >50 ppm. At present, ORGANIC COMPOUND: Chemical compounds which the EPA is developing standards for specifically contain carbon and hydrogen contaminated soils based on health risks. (along with other elements) as opposed to At the meeting. Bob Goledge, Dartmouth inorganic compounds which do not contain Conservation Agent, and Larry Lee, WRDF's carbon and hydrogen links, Organics occur coordinator, noted frustration with the naturally and through man-made processes; clean-up at Re-Solve and suggested that a they can be non-lethal as well as toxic. means be found for EPA to keep the public Some toxic, man-made organic compounds better informed of its actions at the site. are petrochemicals (gasoline), pesticides Bob Bois, an environmental engineer with and solvents. the Massachusetts DEQE, noted that DEQE has the funding to offer technical assistance to citizens wishing to form an advisory group around this issue. WRDF is very willing to initiate the formation of a Citizen's Advisory Group • laMl'VlaH Oy Knin Wit*ai' concerned with the clean-up of the Re-Solve site. Everyone interested in forming a CAC VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND: A group of is asked to call the WRDF Office at organic compounds which easily evaporate 636-3016,— Larry Lee into the air from water or soil. Some volatile organic compounds are common New Board Members, from page 8 solvents such as acetone and benzene, a potent human carcinogen. River she helped to convince the Fall River PCB - POLYCHLORINATED BI-PHENYL: A family City Council to impose a moratorium on new of organic compounds used since 1926 in development in the Copicut watershed pending electric transformers as coolants and the completion of a two year study. An active insulators, in lubricants, carbonless copy environmentalist, she is Executive Director paper, adhesives, and caulking compounds. of the New England Sierra Club in the Boston EPA banned PCB use in 1979. Over time, PCBs regional office and is a member of the accumulate in fatty tisssues of humans and Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Site animals. And although short-term doses are Safety Council and a past member of the not as harmful as the same doses of other Massachusetts Special Legislative Commission chemicals, chronic PCB exposure can be on Radioactive Waste, harmful - causing liver damage. In addition WRDF Executive Director Peter Lavigne is PCBs have caused cancer in laboratory looking forward to working with the new board animals and have adversely affected survi­ members, he said, "WRDF has a fantastic board val rates and reproductive success in fish. and these new members will be invaluable in SEDIMENTS: Materials that settle to the bringing information to the membership on bottom of streams, creeks, lakes, or issues like pesticide contamination and other bodies of water. hazardous waste. They also help to broaden GROUND WATER: Water beneath the earth's our scope of activities in Dartmouth and Fall surface that flows through soil and rock River," said Lavigne. "Working on all the openings and into and out of surface water issues affecting the quality of the bodies like the Copicut and Westport Rivers. environment in the watershed is essential Ground water feeds drinking water wells and if the River is to be available for future is thus an important indicator of drinking generations to enjoy." water quality, Other members of the WRDF Board of — Compiled by Karine Maalouf Directors are: Robert Caron, Selena Howard, Robert Edgcomb, Betsy Borba, Peg Findlay, Re-Solve, from page 3 Alan Hankin, Robert Hawes, Peter Paull, When asked to give a best guess as to Kathie Preston, Arnold Tripp, and Dale when the next clean-up phase could start Thomas. Joyce answered, "Given the possible scenario described here, it could begin in 1990," -7­ Temik, cont. from page 3 Pesticides, cont. from page 5 to fix it. Were we — the 12 or so victims of an unknowing and unintentional her responsibilty to the community. contamination of our wells by a neighbor — On the other hand, some farmers who told the truth? Or is Temik to be one of testified felt that the exemption is those things that return to haunt us, our extremely important as insurance against genes, our health, ten, twenty or more years themselves, especially since they are at risk from now? of losing all possessions and could I tend to be non-alarmist, but I harbor jeopardize their own families' economic doubts that we know the full story. Why wellbeing. Farmers, especially those in weren't some other agricultural fertilizers, opposition to the Act, were also concerned pesticides, fungicides, considered in the that alternatives to pesticide use through testing program? Why was Temik singled out IPM techniques would be non-existent or as the major problem? Not being a chemist, a unsuitable for practical use while stringent biologist, or a totally aware pesticide regulations were imposed. environmentalist, I must trust that we have This was the last public hearing before agencies we fund whose responsibilities are the legislation is voted on by the Joint to look out for the public safety; but I Committee on Agriculture and Natural still wonder if the job has been done in our Resources. Hopefully the Act will be case. reported favorably, and pass the House and The remedy of a filtration system or of Senate. However passage is no guarantee that running a pipeline for us in North Westport we can really be safe from pesticide hazards. from Fall River is not part of any regional As citizens we must see to it that good long-range plan that is sensitive to this regulations are implemented under the Act. area. (Fall River's own watershed is under An important aspect of the hearing is the threat of development in the Blossom Road the communication between local and state area; thus the very water to be sent us is officials, farmers, environmental groups and under attack.) There are thousands of private citizens. This kind of interchange of undeveloped acres and many fields and farmed ideas, data, and opinions is what created the areas here that are waiting without a public proposed Act and it is the only way we can plan for controlled development. I do thank hope to maintain or, better yet, improve our those responsible in Fall River for the understanding of how to preserve the two-year moratorium on building in this part environment and, through it, our own of Massachusetts, and I hope that the health.—Karine Maalouf builder, the resident and the environment can reach an accommodation that will serve the interests of all, but protect us from contamination.— Dick Hatch, North Westport.

The River News is published by the Westport River Defense Fund. Peter Lavigne, Executive Director Larry Lee, Environmental Coordinator

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The Board of Directors of the Westport River Defense Fund recently appointed three new members to the Board. Filling vacancies are Richard Hatch, of Old Bedford Road in LAND DAY North Westport; Richard Ibara, Old Westport Tuesday, April 28,1987 Road, North Dartmouth; and Priscilla Chapman, A Rally for the Environment, State House, Boston Garden Street, Fall River. The new directors Tho purpose ol iMs event Is to demonstrate pubfic support lor protection ol open space: agricultural land, have a wide range of experience and expertise stale and Jocal puka. uiban parks, beaches, endangered species habital, aqu'der land, and rf^er fronts. which will help the WRDF with the complex Full day of events Indude: environmental problems facing the watershed 10:00 am Tour ol the State House (2nd Ibor. Iront ol the State House) and its environs on Buzzards Bay, said Board 11 i)0 am Introduction to Ihe tegislalive Process (Legislative SeAice Bureau, room 527) 12 noon The EVEt^: Program wtth relreshments (Nurus Hall, 2nd noor) President John Preston. 1:00 pm Afternoon ts avaflabte lor vUs with legislators (Please cal your representative Richard Hatch, the first of the three and senator prior to AprI 28 to set up meetings,) recent appointees to join the board, is Manager of Manufacturing Systems for Sippican Sponsors: Appalachian Mountain Club Masschusatls Audubon Sociaty Inc. in Marion. He has had first hand Arnotd Art»ratum Massachusatts Farm Bursau Asaodalfon lor tha Prasarvalion of Capa Cod KtUssadiusatts Foraslry Association experience with pollution problems in the Bamstabla ConsanfiUon Foundation Massachusatts Golf Assodalion Bariuhlra Natural Ra«ourcas Council Massachusatts Horticullura Society watershed as his family's drinking water well Bovlon GraanSpaca Alartca Massachusatts Ijmd Lasgua was one of those contaminated with Temik, a Boston Urban Gardanan Massachusetts Sportsman's Council Cambrtdga Communfty Gardanare Massachusetts State Federstion of Women's Glut potato pesticide manufactured by the Union CafM and lalanda Sail RaHanca Massachusetts Wildiile Federation Chartts Rlvar Watarshad Assodallon Merrimack Rlvei Watershed Associalion Carbide Corporation. A Tufts University Oviian Conwraallon Corps Middlasax Conservation Distrla Communily iMvi Trust (Graal Barrtngton) Nantucket Land Bank Commission graduate, he also serves as the Ways and Compaci ot Capa Cod Consarvalbn Trusts Nantucket Land Courvll Connacticut Rivar Wat«rsh*d Cound Nentucket Ptenning Council Means chair for the Westport Historical Edmundspaxk Gardan Club Watershed Council Environmanlal Ijobby ol Masschusaits Neponset Conssrvalicn Association Society. Eaaax County Graanbalt Associatkin New Alchemy Inslilute Friandi ol tha Quabbin New England Aquarium Dr. Richard Ibara, Professor of Biology at Gardan Ctub Fadaralbn tA Masachuaatlts New England Sierra Club Historic Massachusans Naw England Forestry Four>dation Southeastern Massachusetts University, is a Hoosic Rivar Watarshad Assodation Save the Harbor-Save the Bay Watarshad Assoctalion Sudbury VaBey Trustees town meeting member in Dartmouth, and a Lighthousi PieservatJon Socialy The Trustees ol Reservations Uoyd Caniar lor Cnvironinaraal Sludtos Tnjcl tor Public Land member of the Dartmouth Lake Noquochoke Maaaachusatu Assodallon for Otmstaad Parks Vineyard Conservation Society Mastachusatu Association of Consarvalbn Westport River Defense Fund Committee. Professor Ibara holds the M.S. and Commlssbru (arvf many lood conwnisskins} WBdarnaas Society Ph.d degrees in Zoology from the University Worcester Regionel Environmental Council of California at Santa Barbara and he earned For More Information Contact: WRDF 636-3016 his B.A. at the University of Hawaii. He brings a keen knowledge of shellfish biology PUMe return thb coupon k) LAND DAY. HRDF, BoX 3103, Ues'tDOft, MA 02730 to WRDF. I vM allsnd. Namo Phone Priscilla Chapman has been extremely active on issues affecting the upper reaches Addreu. J will bring , _ ol people. Send me Monnalbn on earpooling lo Boslon. of the Westport River Watershed in Fall River Please provide me wth assistance on how to contact my Isglslalors to set up meetings. I cannot attend. Sand ni« Inlormation on what else I can do to help. and Dartmouth. As a member of the Copicut I am allllated with the loUowlns organt:atlon(s) Resources committee for the City of Fall cont. pag e6 Westport River Defense Fund, Inc. Non-Profit Org. P.O. Box 3103, 1151 Main Road U.S. POSTAGE Wing Carriage House PAID Westport, MA 02790 Permit No. 38 Westport, Mass.

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