Upcoming
Race for Salem Sound
Coastal
5K Run for the Beach
Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 10 am start
Lynch Park, Beverly, MA
Swim & Fin 5th Annual Salem Harbor
Open Water Swim - Aug. 28th
2010
Swim&Fin Race Results and Link
to the race video by Michael Gobrech
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Check
calendar for more September events
Trails
and Sails - trips with Salem Sound Coastwatch Sunday 9/19
12:30
“Salt Marsh in the City”
and 2:00
West Beach Tidepooling!
Coastsweep
Kickoff
- Saturday, 9/25, at 9:30am
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SSCW’s
20th Anniversary 1990 - 2010
Wanted:
200 Volunteers
Assignment:
To commemorate SSCW’s 20th Anniversary,
make a $20 donation to SSCW.
Your gift will be put to work making a cleaner and healthier
environment,
right here at home. You can make a difference.
20
years. $20. 200 gifts.
Your chance to be part of the solution.
Click
here to make a secure online donation.
or
send a check to
SSCW at 201 Washington St, Suite 9, Salem, MA 01970.
To
celebrate our 20th year,
we have introduced our
Adopt a Beach program
and are organizing monthly special activities.
Sign up for our e-newsletter to
find out the lastest events.
ADOPT
a BEACH
We
are recruiting teams of community volunteers to serve as “beachkeepers.”
Beachkeepers are trained to identify and monitor sources of
contamination,
identify invasive species, observe conditions such as erosion
and sedimentation,
and clean up trash and debris at their adopted beach on a year-round
basis.
We
have already held three training sessions for 144 beachkeepers.
If you want to adopt a beach, join a team, be trained
send us an email to info@salemsound.org.
To learn more about the program and
to volunteer.
Additional
informational and training sessions will be planned as needed.
The
development of this program has been funded in part by the
Massachusetts Environmental Trust,
which receives much of its funding from motorists
who choose
to purchase speciality "Trust plates", such as
the Northern Right Whale,
Leaping Brook Trout and Blackstone Valley Mill.
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Our
programs and the environmental improvements in Salem Sound
are made possible by member support and contributions.
BECOME A MEMBER - MAKE
A DONATION
- GIFT MEMBERSHIP online
Thanks
to all our members, corporate
sponsors, and funders.
Become a group member of "Salem
Sound Coastwatch" on Facebook!
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Stormwater
runoff is a major source of pollution to Salem Sound.
New Federal and State stormwater management requirements will
soon be in place.
SSCW co-sponored a workshop for municipalities to learn about
a
Stormwater Utility, an innovative way to fund stormwater program.
Learn more about stormwater,
the regulations and Stormwater Utility! ______________________________________________________________________________________________
GREENSCAPES
-
Learn
about environmentally-friendly landscaping!
Salem
Sound Coastwatch in cooperation with its many partners provides
information
on how to have environmentally-friendly lawns and yards that
are safe, attractive, save money on water bills and keep our
coastal waters cleaner.
Learn
more about Ocean Acidification and what you
can do!
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Eelgrass
-one of the largest eelgrass meadows in Massachusetts
is right here in Salem Sound. Learn why
this is so important!
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Salem
Sound
IS a NDA ( No
Discharge Area) as of June 23, 2008.
Salem
Sound Coastwatch is pleased to have worked on behalf of Salem
Sound, the Salem Sound Harbormasters and the five communities:
Marblehead, Salem, Danvers, Beverly and Machester-by-the-Sea,
to have the state of Massachusetts and EPA
Region 1 designate Salem Sound as an area where boaters with
MSD Type I & II (marine
sanitation device - heads)
can no longer dump within 3 miles of shore.
Resources
for Boaters
Salem Sound NDA Poster: what
boaters need to know and chart of Salem Sound NDA boundaries
(96 kB PDF)
Pumpout
Services (hours and phone numbers) (36 KB
PDF)
Map
of No Discharge Areas in MA, RI, NH as of
2/17/2009 (710 KB PDF).
We
continue to work on increasing boater awareness of pump-out
facilities in our region and expanding these services.
The
Salem Sound Working Group has also
begun implementation of recommendations from the SSCW Marine
Sanitation Needs Assessment.
To Learn more...
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Citizens
Monitoring for Marine Invasive Species:
SSCW is conducting on-going research
on Marine Invading Species. Check out our
Marine Introduced Species Resource Center
and our Coastal
Habitat Invasive Monitoring Program.
SSCW is working with the international SETL-project
to study marine fouling communities in
Salem Sound. SETL's goal is to gather data from temperate regions
around the world.
To get involved, send us an email.
Chinese
Mitten Crab ALERT!!
40 in New Jersey alone and more are being found in the Hudson
River, New York!
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Become a member and volunteer.
Learn how you can support and participate in environmental monitoring
and scientific research in the Salem Sound Watershed. | 
