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This is a list of Superfund sites in Massachusetts designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination
The Ten Mile River is a river within the U.S. states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It flows approximately 22 miles (35 km) and drains a watershed of 54 square miles (140 km 2). [1] The North Attleborough National Fish Hatchery is located in its upper reaches, and the river offers stocked trout fishing in the spring.
Bristol County was created by the Plymouth Colony on June 2, 1685, [3] and named after its "shire town" (county seat), Bristol. [4] The Plymouth Colony, along with the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Maine Colony and several other small settlements were rechartered in 1691, by King William III, to become The Province of Massachusetts Bay.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) has been closing beaches due to unsafe swimming water all summer long. Heading into this weekend, 50 beaches are closed - one of the highest ...
An USGS map of the Taunton River Watershed A sign in Berkley, MA indicates that "You are in the Taunton River Watershed" The Taunton River watershed or Taunton River basin is made up of 562 square miles (1,500 km 2) of rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and wetlands in southeastern Massachusetts, US. It is the second largest watershed in the state.
Rivers of Bristol County, Massachusetts (1 C, 29 P) Pages in category "Bodies of water of Bristol County, Massachusetts" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
The Merrimack River (or Merrimac River, an occasional earlier spelling [1]) is a 117-mile-long (188 km) river [2] in the northeastern United States. It rises at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers in Franklin, New Hampshire, [3] flows southward into Massachusetts, and then flows northeast until it empties into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport.
List of rivers of Massachusetts . All Massachusetts rivers flow to the Atlantic Ocean . The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name, arranged travelling upstream along the larger stream.