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News from the Friends of the Blue
Hills February 10, 2006 After four months of draining, the Blue Hills Reservoir on Chickatawbut Road is down about 35 ft and fish populations that have been undisturbed since 1977 are confined to a few inches of water in the east end. Because of the unprecedented exemption to the Wetlands Protection Act granted to MWRA by DEP, none of the 8.7 acres of open water habitat that MWRA plans to fill for its $35 million tank project will be replaced, contrary to the state's long-standing "no net loss of wetlands" policy. Friends of the Blue Hills is challenging the exemption in court and we have filed legislation requiring the wetlands to be replaced, but it will be too late for these fish. Photos taken yesterday at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ophis/sets/72057594062017551/ More info at: http://www.friendsofthebluehills.org/BHreservoir.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ You have received this message because you are on the Friends of the Blue Hills email list of members and other interested parties. If you have any comments, corrections to this list, or would like to be removed from it, please click here. |