Our North River Awareness Week was a great success. Thank you everyone who participated. We established 10 stream teams who then went out in the May (yes, the month of floods) and conducted"Shoreline Surveys" of the North River and Peabody Brooks. Then, on Thursday evening June 8, we met again to review all our findings and discuss what actions need to be work on. Our work on the "Urban and Community Forestry Stewardship for Watershed Health" grant from Department of Conservation and Recreation has enabled SSCW to focus conservation, restoration, and stormwater managment of strategic parcels for enhanced stormwater and watershed management in the North River Watershed in Salem and Peabody.

A special thanks goes to five Tufts graduate students in the Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning for their hard work in researching and preparing the report: "Nurturing the Recovery of the North River: A Practical Vision" which can be read by coming to the SSCW office or downloading the report PDF (22MB) and Appendices & References (7MB).

Let us know if you want to help us out, by sending us an email with your name, address and phone number.