- Berkshire County River Cleanups
- Urban River Visions plan for the West Branch of the Housatonic River Unveiling
- Sierra Club is Hiring in Boston
- MA Environment Committee Hearing Schedule
Berkshire County River Cleanups 6/9 & 10
2005 Pittsfield West Branch of the Housatonic River Cleanup
Please join us for our National Rivers Cleanup Week cleanups! There are three cleanups to choose from or attend all three! – organized by the Sheffield Land Trust and Great Barrington Conservation Commission in conjunction with the Housatonic Valley Association and Berkshire Environmental Action Team.
See pictures of the Saturday, June 2nd, River Cleanup and Paddle
Berkshire County River Cleanups 6/9 & 10
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Please join us for our National Rivers Cleanup Week cleanups! There are three cleanups to choose from or attend all three! – organized by the Sheffield Land Trust and Great Barrington Conservation Commission in conjunction with the Housatonic Valley Association and Berkshire Environmental Action Team.
See pictures of the Saturday, June 2nd, River Cleanup and Paddle
Saturday, June 9th – Great Barrington River Cleanup starting at 10 am until about 1pm
Meet at the boat launch on Brookside Road in Great Barrington. (Brookside is off of Route 7 south of the Fairgrounds.) We will not be using boats or canoes, we’ll be on foot and cleaning up along the banks of the river.
Wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting wet and dirty. We will have a few pairs of rubber boots and waders for people to borrow. We will provide garbage bags and thick rubber gloves. If you prefer work gloves, please bring your own – they will get dirty.
Sunday, June 10th – Pittsfield River Cleanup starting at 10am
Meet at Wahconah Park in Pittsfield. We will divide up and cover as many places as we can. We will be cleaning on foot (not by canoe).
Wear old clothes that you don’t mind getting wet and dirty. Rubber boots are good. We will have a few pairs of rubber boots and waders for people to borrow. We will provide garbage bags and thick rubber gloves. If you prefer work gloves, please bring your own – they will get dirty.
From the National Rivers Cleanup Week website: What should volunteers wear?
- High-top work boots with non-skid soles (no tennis shoes)
- Long pants, long sleeve shirt
- Heavy duty leather work gloves
- Hat for sun protection
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent
(If you only have tennis shoes, you can still pick up trash at the top of the bank or along the road.)
Check our river cleanup page to see what we have done in the past. Cleanups are a lot of hard work and a lot of fun! hope to see you there.
National River Cleanup Week, is presented by American Rivers, and kicks offa series of community-based stream cleanups nationwide beginning the week of June 2-10, 2007. This popular annual event raises public awareness of themagnitude of trash accumulating in our nation¹s waterways. Local volunteerswill be participating along with tens of thousands of volunteers taking partin hundreds of cleanups across the country to remove trash from local riversand streams.
Unveiling of the Urban River Visions plan for the West Branch of the Housatonic River
On a somewhat rainy evening at Pitt Park the Urban River Visions plan for the West Branch of the Housatonic River was unveiled.
The evening started with another wonderful performance by Youth Alive
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We then moved inside for a presentation of the draft poster resulting from the two-day input session.
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(See BEAT’s report and pictures of the two-day input session and the official report [pdf] on the session).
There is more information about the Urban River Visions 2 process on their website.
For more information on the Urban Rivers Vision plan or this event, please contact Jim McGrath, Director of Community Services for Pittsfield, directly at 413-499-9343 or by email.
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All hearings in State House Hearing Room A-1 unless otherwise noted
Milk – June 4, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Safer Alternatives – June 11, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Air and Water Quality – June 25, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Agriculture and Milk – July 9, 2007 – 1:00 PM – Location TBA
Oceans – July 16, 2007 – 1:00 PM – Location TBA
Oceans and Waterways – July 23, 2007 – 1:00 PM – Location New Bedford
LAND CONSERVATION – July 30, 2007 – 1:00 PM – Location TBA
Pesticides & Hazardous Waste – September 10, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Fish and Game – September 17, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Policies – September 24, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Dept. of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) – October 1, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Sewers, Title V, Wetlands – October 15, 2007 – 1:00 PM
Miscellaneous – October 22, 2007 – 1:00 PM