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Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2018]: Water Quality Data for Public and Semi-Public Beaches
Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2018]: Water quality data for public and semi-public beaches The table below summarizes testing and posting information for each freshwater beach in Massachusetts. Under the state regulations, freshwater beaches must test for either E. coli or Enterococci. Most beaches do not have to post after each exceedance, provided that (1) they take an immediate resample and (2) that resample does not exceed the standard. Thus, a beach may have an exceedance but no days posted. Conversely, a beach may have days posted, but no exceedances, if it was posted for a reason other than a bacterial exceedance (e.g. rainfall, a cyanobacterial harmful algae bloom, or another hazard such as limited visibility due to poor water clarity). Single Minimum Maximum Testing Days Community Beach Name Tests Indicator Sample Exceedance Exceedance Frequency Posted Exceedances (cfu/100mL) (cfu/100mL) Abington Island Grove Beach Weekly 12 E. coli 3 236 312 3 Acton NARA Beach Weekly 16 E. coli Agawam Robinson Pond Beach (DCR) Weekly 15 Enterococci Amesbury Camp Bauercrest Weekly 10 E. coli Amesbury Glen Devin Condominiums Weekly 11 E. coli 2 261 1553 14 Amesbury Lake Attitash - A.L.S.I.A. Weekly 11 E. coli Amesbury Lake Gardner Weekly 11 E. coli 1 261 261 7 Amesbury Tuxbury RV Resort Lagoon Weekly 11 E. coli Amherst Puffers Pond (North) Weekly 17 E. coli 4 240 1986.3 8 Amherst Puffers Pond (South) Weekly 18 E. coli 4 285.1 1986.3 8 Andover Camp Maude Eaton (1) Weekly 11 E. Coli Andover Camp Maude Eaton (2) Weekly 11 E. -
Ocm39986872-1951-HB-2127.Pdf (849.2Kb)
HOUSE 2127 Che Commontocalth of Massachusetts SPECIAL REPORT I OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ON SURVEYS OF THE GREAT PONDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE RIGHTS OF WAY THERETO Under Chapter 24 of the Resolves of 1960 December, 1950 I BOSTON WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., LEGISLATIVE PRINTERS 32 DERNE STREET 1951 C&e Commontuealtf) of 00assacljusett0 SPECIAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ON SURVEYS OF GREAT PONDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. I Department of Pddlic Works, 100 Nashua Street, Boston, December 28, 1950 To the Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts In accordance with the provisions of chapter 24, Resolves of 1950, the Department of Public Works submits its report on its progress on making surveys and measurements of all ponds within the Commonwealth, which are or formerly were great ponds, including ponds whose area has been increased by artificial flowing, but in which is included in part a natural great pond. Chapter 24, Resolves of 1950, is as follows: Resolved, That the department of public works, acting through its division of waterways, shall proceed forthwith to make a survey and measurement of all ponds within the commonwealth which are or formerly were great ponds, including ponds whose area has been in- creased by artificial flowing but in which is included in part a natural great pond. Said department shall report to the general court on or before December thirty-first of the current year, giving the names and the locations of the ponds which have definitely been determined to be great ponds, and shall annually report on December thirty-first thereafter until the status of all ponds which are or may have been great ponds has been definitely established. -
Geological Survey
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY No. 116 A GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF MASSACHUSETTS LIBRARY CATALOGUE SLIPS. United States. Department of the interior. ( U. S. geological survey.) Department of the interior | | Bulletin | of the | United States | geological survey | no. 116 | [Seal of the department] | Washington | government printing office | 1894 Second title: United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | hy | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington | government printing office | 1894 8°. 126 pp. Gannett (Henry) United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington | government printing office | 1894 8°. 126pp. [UNITED STATES. Department of the interior. (V. S. geological survey). Bulletin 116]. United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | A | geographic dictionary | of | Massachusetts | by | Henry Gannett | [Vignette] | Washington | government printing office | 1894 8°. 126pp. [UNITED STATES. Department of the interior. (V. S. geological survey), Bulletin 116]. 2331 A r> v E R TI s in M jr. N- T. [Bulletin No. 116.] The publications of the United States Geological Survey are issued in accordance with'the statute approved March 3, 1879, which declares that "The publications of the Geological Survey shall consist of the annual report of operations, geological and economic maps illustrating the resources and classification of tlio lands, and reports upon general and economic geology and paleontology. The annual report of operations of the Geological Survey shall accompany the annual report of the Secretary of the Interior. All special memoirs and reports of said Survey shall be issued in uniform quarto series if deemed necessary by the Director, but other wise in ordinary octavos. -
DIVISION of WATER POLLUTION CONTROL Thomas C.· Mcmahon, Director COMPILATIONOF LAKES, PONDS, and RESERVOIRS
Compi lotion of Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs Relative to . THE MASSACHUSETTS LAKE CLASSIFICATION PROGRAM massachusetts department of environmental quality engineering DIVISION OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL thomas c.· mcmahon, director COMPILATIONOF LAKES, PONDS, AND RESERVOIRS RELATIVETO THE MASSACHUSETTSLAKE CLASSIFICATIONPROGRAM Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Water Pollution Control Water Quality and Research Section Westborough, Massachusetts March 1976 Approved by: Alfred C. Holland Purchasing Agent Est.Cost per Copy:$2.91 TABLE OF CONTENTS ITEM PAGE Massachusetts Lake Classification Program 4 Introduction 4 Objectives of Lake Program 4 Total Inventory of Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs in the 7 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Total Surface Area of Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs in the 8 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts Drainage Basins: Hoosic River Basin 9 Housatonic River Basin 11 Deerfield River Basin 15 Westfield River Basin 17 Farmington River Basin 20 Connecticut River Basin 23 Millers River Basin 26 Chicopee River Basin 30 French and Quinebaug River Basins 35 Nashua River Basin 40 Blackstone River Basin 45 Merrimack River Basin 50 Concord and Sudbury River Basins 53 Assabet River Basin 56 Shawsheen River Basin 59 Parker River Basin 61 Ipswich River Basin 63 North Coastal Drainage 66 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS(Continued) ITEM PAGE Boston Harbor 69 Mystic River Basin 71 Neponset River Basin 73 Weymouth River Basin 76 Charles River Basin 7B North River Basin 83 South Coastal Drainage 86 Cape Cod Drainage 90 -
Massachusetts Environmental Police
Commonwealth of Massachusetts MASSACHUSETTS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICE Massachusetts Lake Bylaws Listed by Town Sources can also be found at http://www.lawlib.state.ma.us/source/masslbylaws.html 1. Acton a. Ice House Pond i. Except for emergency rescue and law enforcement purposes, and for purposes of construction and maintenance by the Town of Acton or its designee, no person shall launch, place, float, use, or land a craft with an internal combustion engine in or on Ice House pond, which pond is located off Concord Road in the East Acton area. The Police Officers of the Town of Acton shall enforce this bylaw. Violation of this bylaw shall be punishable by a fine of three hundred dollars ($300.00), whereby each incident of violating this bylaw and each day that such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. (2004) 2. Amesbury a. Lake Gardner, the Powow River, the Black River, and ponds over which the Town of Amesbury has Jurisdiction. i. Prohibits the operation of jet skis, surf skis, wet bikes, or other so-called "personal watercraft". (1996) b. Lake Attitash, Lake Gardner, the Powow River, the Black River, and pond ice. i. Prohibits the use of trucks, campers, trailers, automobiles, ski mobiles, or other motorized vehicles. (1996) ii. Prohibits the use of gas powered augers, chains saws or similar cutting devices except between the hours of 9:00am and 4:00pm. (1996) 3. Andover a. Foster's Pond i. It shall be unlawful for any person to introduce, operate or permit and suffer to be operated on Foster Pond a motor boat powered by any engine with a horsepower in excess of 10. -
Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2020]: Water Quality Data for Public and Semi-Public Beaches
Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2020]: Water quality data for public and semi-public beaches The table below summarizes testing and posting information for each freshwater beach in Massachusetts. Under the state regulations, freshwater beaches must test for either E. coli or Enterococci. Most beaches do not have to post after each exceedance, provided that (1) they take an immediate resample and (2) that resample does not exceed the standard. Thus, a beach may have an exceedance but no days posted. Conversely, a beach may have days posted, but no exceedances, if it was posted for a reason other than a bacterial exceedance (e.g. rainfall, a cyanobacterial harmful algae bloom, or another hazard such as limited visibility due to poor water clarity). Single Minimum Maximum Testing Days Community Beach Location Name Indicator Tests Sample Exceedance Exceedance Frequency Posted Exceedances (cfu/100mL) (cfu/100mL) Abington Island Grove Beach Weekly E. coli 6 0 Acton NARA Beach Weekly E. coli 17 0 Agawam Robinson Pond Beach (DCR) Weekly Enterococci 16 0 Amesbury Glen Devin Condominiums Weekly E. coli 14 1 579 579 Amesbury Lake Attitash - A.L.S.I.A. Weekly E. coli 14 0 Amesbury Lake Gardner Weekly E. coli 15 3 238 1986 Amesbury Tuxbury RV Resort Lagoon Weekly E. coli 10 1 770 770 Amherst Puffers Pond @ Mill St. Weekly E. coli 18 3 313 980.4 10 Amherst Puffers Pond @ State St. Weekly E. coli 18 2 378.4 435.2 7 Amherst Stanley St./Cushman Bridge Weekly E. coli 8 8 290.9 1299.7 68 Andover Pomps Pond (Center) Weekly E. -
2008 DWM ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OVERVIEW Water
2008 DWM ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OVERVIEW (CN 331.0) Water quality monitoring, assessment and management activities of the MassDEP are sequentially performed in accordance with a rotating five-year watershed schedule. Surface waters are typically monitored during Year 2 of the cycle by the Division of Watershed Management’s (DWM) Watershed Planning Section. The main programmatic objectives of the DWM related to surface water quality monitoring are to: Collect chemical, physical and biological data to assess the degree to which designated uses, such as aquatic life, primary and secondary contact recreation, fish consumption and aesthetics, are being met in waters of the Commonwealth; Collect chemical, physical and biological data to support analysis and development of implementation plans to reduce pollutant loads to waters of the Commonwealth; Screen fish in selected waterbodies for fish tissue contaminants (metals, PCBs and organochlorine pesticides) to provide for public health risk assessment; To the extent feasible, locate pollution sources and promote and facilitate timely correction; Over the long term, collect water quality data to enable the determination of trends in parameter concentrations and/or loads; Develop new or revised standards, which may require short-term research monitoring directed towards the establishment or revision of water quality policies and standards; and to Measure the effectiveness of water quality management projects or programs (such as the effectiveness of implementing TMDLs, Best Management Practices (BMP) for the control of nonpoint pollution, or a state-wide policy or permitting program). Quality assurance is maintained for DWM’s watershed monitoring program to ensure implementation of an effective and efficient sampling design, to meet programmatic goals and to provide data meeting specific data quality objectives. -
Buzzards Bay Watershed
BUZZARDS BAY WATERSHED – LAKE SEGMENT ASSESSMENTS A total of 173 lakes, ponds or impoundments (the term "lakes" will hereafter be used to include all) have been identified and assigned Pond And Lake Information System (PALIS) code numbers in the Buzzards Bay Watershed (Ackerman 1989 and MA DEP 2002d). One hundred forty-three (143) of the lakes are less than 50 acres in total surface area; three are 50 acres; ten are between 50 and 100 acres; ten are between 100 and 200 acres; five are between 200 and 500 acres; and two are 500- 700 acres in total surface area. The total surface area of the Buzzards Bay Watershed lakes is 7,106 acres. This report presents information on 69 of the Buzzards Bay Watershed lakes that are listed in the WBS database. The remaining 103 lakes, which total 2,740 acres, are unassessed and are not currently included as segments in the WBS database. The 69 lakes assessed in this report represent 4,366 of the 7,106 acres, or 61%, of the total lake acreage in the Buzzards Bay Watershed. The majority of the lakes assessed in the Buzzards Bay Watershed are located within the three communities in the northeastern most portion of the watershed; Plymouth (29), Wareham (13), and Carver (12). Baseline lake surveys were conducted on seven of these lakes (TMDL sampling) in the summer of 2000 (Appendix A, Tables A2 and A3). Synoptic surveys were conducted by DWM at 64 of these lakes in 1995 (Appendix A, Table A1). (Two of the lakes were sampled in both 1995 and 2000.) Public boat launches are located on three of the assessed lakes: Big Sandy (MA95011), Long (MA95096), and Snipatuit (MA95137) Ponds. -
Open Space and Recreation Plan 2017 – 2024 Wareham, Massachusetts
TOWN OF WAREHAM Open Space and Recreation Plan 2017 – 2024 FEARING HILL CONSERVATION AREA Town of Wareham 54 Marion Road Wareham, Massachusetts About the Cover Art: The watercolor of the Weweantic River in Wareham’s Fearing Hill Conservation Area is used with permission from the artist Robert Scott. Robert Scott is a graphic artist/designer and a resident of Wareham. He earned his BFA degree at Tufts University and the Boston Museum School. He enjoys creating from his imagination a wide range of art forms, including watercolor, acrylic, computer graphics, ink and pastel. He is a member of the Printmakers of Cape Cod. Table of Contents SECTION 1 PLAN SUMMARY ................................................................................................ 1 SECTION 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 2 A. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE .......................................................................................................... 2 B. PLANNING PROCESS AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ............................................................................ 3 C. ENHANCED OUTREACH AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ........................................................................ 5 SECTION 3 COMMUNITY SETTING ........................................................................................ 5 A. REGIONAL CONTEXT ................................................................................................................ 5 B. HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY ................................................................................................... -
Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2017]: Water Quality Data for Public and Semi-Public Beaches
Massachusetts Freshwater Beaches [2017]: Water quality data for public and semi-public beaches The table below summarizes testing and posting information for each freshwater beach in Massachusetts. Under the state regulations, freshwater beaches must test for either E. coli or Enterococci. Most beaches do not have to post after each exceedance, provided that (1) they take an immediate resample and (2) that resample does not exceed the standard. Thus, a beach may have an exceedance but no days posted. Conversely, a beach may have days posted, but no exceedances, if it was posted for a reason other than a bacterial exceedance (e.g. rainfall, a cyanobacterial harmful algae bloom, or another hazard such as limited visibility due to poor water clarity). Single Minimum Maximum Testing Days Community Beach Name Sample Location Tests Indicator Sample Exceedance Exceedance Frequency Posted Exceedances (cfu/100mL) (cfu/100mL) Abington Island Grove Beach Sampling Point Weekly 10 E. coli Acton NARA Beach Sampling Point Weekly 15 E. coli Agawam Robinson Pond Beach (DCR) Sampling Point Weekly 17 Enterococci 6 86 2419 30 Amesbury Camp Bauercrest Sampling Point Weekly 8 E. coli Amesbury Glen Devin Condominiums Sampling Point Weekly 12 E. coli 1 285 285 Amesbury Lake Attitash - A.L.S.I.A. Dam/Bathing area Weekly 12 E. coli Amesbury Lake Gardner Sampling Point Weekly 12 E. coli 1 326 326 8 Amesbury Tuxbury RV Resort Lagoon Sampling Point Weekly 6 E. coli Amherst Puffers Pond (AKA Factory Hollow Pond) Mill (North) Weekly 17 E. coli 1 > 235 > 235 Amherst Puffers Pond (AKA Factory Hollow Pond) State (South) Weekly 17 E. -
Annual Report of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners. for The
' If 5 1 f* *^P I ."^ ^ ?^ ""f ?*f^T f foil u IV .©ov Doe COLL Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2011 witii funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries littp://www.arcliive.org/details/annualreportofbo1913boar Public Document No. 11 THIETY-FIFTH ANNUAL EEPOET BOARD or HARBOE AND LAND COMMISSIONERS. For the Year 1913 I inn^rtv I wioy/iH,i^i.^uyi LifilMlii GOV DOC ecu BOSTON: WEIGHT & POTTEE FEINTING CO., STATE PEINTEES, 32 DEENE STEEET. 1914. Approved by The State Board of Publication. ®()£ (JommontDeaUl) of ^assatl)U0etts. REPORT. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts. The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of law, respectfully submits its annual report for the year 1913, covering a period of twelve months, from Nov. 30, 1912, being the thirty-fifth annual report of the Board since its establishment by chapter 263 of the Acts of 1879. The present organization of the Board is as follows: William S. McNary of Boston, chairman, George E. Smith of Swamp- scott, Charles C. Paine of Barnstable. From Dec. 1, 1912, to Nov. 30, 1913, the Board has given 185 formal and informal hearings, and has received 178 peti- tions for the improvement and protection of rivers, harbors and foreshores, for licenses to build and maintain structures, for privileges in tide waters, great ponds and Connecticut River, to dredge material, to remove material from beaches and for other purposes. One hundred and seventeen licenses for structures and privi- leges in tide waters, great ponds and Connecticut River have been granted during the year; also 22 permits for dredging, the removal of material from beaches and for other purposes.