HPWA Spring 2017Newsletter2
Newsletter Spring 2017 HPWA is a 501(c)3 Charitable Organization Volume 8, Issue 1 table) is exposed. Other important habitats Directors President’s Message supported by the aquifer include Atlantic Brian Harrington, Brian Harrington, President white cedar swamps and coastal rivers, such as President Lee Pulis, Vice Pres. the Wareham, Agawam, Red Brook, and Eel Water, water everywhere – Not long after I Rivers. The cedar swamps, including small John Foye, Treasurer moved into the Herring River Watershed my Linda White, Secretary patches in the Herring River Watershed, are daughter mentioned that our tap water had a home to a number of rare and declining Webmaster, open funny smell to it. We switched to drinking Asst. Webmaster, Lee species. Our coastal rivers serve many Pulis bottled water. Testing showed that there were functions including recreation, spawning areas Paula Kuketz, Water traces of a harmful gasoline additive that for migratory fish and, in historic times, were Safety Committee somehow had made its way to our remote centers of trade, commerce and Martha Sheldon, well. The odor gradually faded, and after Membership Committee manufacturing. about 6 months the chemical was no longer As Plymouth grows the risks of contamina- Geri Williams, Newsletter detectable. Luckily, the “plume” had passed. Editor tion to our aquifer increases, along with the Our neighborhood wells, like mine, tap into Lee Pulis, Education and demand for water. High-density development Outreach Committee an aquifer. We depend on the aquifer for our increases the potential for fouling our ponds drinking water, and also as the primary source Don Williams and Jack and wells, and the aquifer itself.
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