It's
Party Time!
Friday, May 16 ------- 7:30 pm to Midnight
Hawthorne
Hotel Ballroom in Salem
Join
us at our 4th Annual “Keeping the Earth SAFE &
SOUND” Benefit party. Back by popular demand,
the renown band “A Patch
of Blue” will be playing live music. There
will be dancing, a silent auction with great items, hors d’oeuvres
and a cash bar. Ten percent discount with ticket at Hawthorne
Hotel restaurants this evening.
Tickets are only $15
or 10 for $125.
Available online
by calling our office at 978-741-7900
or at the door
This
is a wonderful event to meet new people, find out about environmental
activities, and support Salem Sound Coastwatch and Salem Alliance
For the Enivronment (SAFE). Posters for the evening: Patch of
Blue and SAFE and SOUND
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BECOME A MEMBER
- MAKE
A DONATION
- GIFT MEMBERSHIP online
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North
River Awareness Week - May 4 - 10
Activities
throughout the week to build awareness and promote the recovery
of this once degraded river! Check
the calendar for details.
Spring
Pond Clean up was
cancelled due to rain will be rescheduled in June.
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GREENSCAPES
2008
Salem
Sound Coastwatch in cooperation with its many partners to bring
you knowledge on how to have environmentally-friendly lawns
and yards that are safe, attractive, save money on water bills
and keep our coastal waters cleaner.
Please join us at our four free Greenscapes
workshops this May.
If you live in one of the fifteen
communities who have partnered with us, be on the lookout
for the Greenscapes Guide that is being mailed to single family
homes around May 1st or look for a copy at your City or Town
Hall.
Also,
receive a 15 % discount on the 23
Greenscapes-Recommended plants when you mention Greenscapes
at the following participating nurseries
and stores.
For more, check out the Greenscapes
Massachusetts website.
Salem
Sound No Discharge Designation
(NDA) Application
Salem
Sound Coastwatch submitted a NDA application on behalf of the
Salem Sound Harbormasters and the five communities: Marblehead,
Salem, Danvers, Beverly and Machester-by-the-Sea, to MA Coastal
Zone Management.
The application is currently before EPA Region 1.
Contact us for more info.
We
will continue to work on increasing boater awareness of pump-out
facilities in our region and expanding these services.
Salem Sound Pump-out Chart (7.5 MB
PDF)
and Pumpout Services (36KB
PDF).
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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Check
out the water quality in Salem
Sound. Results from our
2007 Clean Beaches & Streams Program are posted and there
is a link to beach conditions. We will be planning this summer's
monitoring soon. Let us know if you want to volunteer to take
biweekly water samples.
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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 and Cape
Ann. SETL's goal is to gather data from temperate regions around
the world.
To get involved, send us an email.
Chinese
Mitten Crab ALERT!!
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Call
or email us
to join a Forest River Stream
Team or our North
River and its Peabody Tributaries Stream Teams.
Designing
Peabody Street park along the South River -
Final Report
Thanks
to all our members, corporate sponsors, and funders.
Become a member and volunteer.
Learn how you can support and participate in environmental monitoring
and scientific research in the Salem Sound Watershed. | 
