Lobby your legislator on behalf of the Charles and our Parks Agency  

A sample letter to your state legislator:

Your name
Your address

Legislator's name
Legislator's address

Date

Dear _______:

As we move in to budget season and you begin to make the arduous decisions of what to fund and for how much, I encourage you to increase funding to the Department of Conservation and Recreation so that they might begin to address the abysmal state of their stormwater management program.

Inadequate funding is causing the Commonwealth's largest overseer of land to violate Clean Water Act and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations.  DCR, which manages over 675,000 acres of land in Massachusetts, is out of compliance with federal permit regulations regarding stormwater management. 

DCR's misson is "to protect, promote and enhance our common wealth of natural, cultural and recreational resources for the well being of all."  How ironic then, that the underfunding of the agency has led to DCR's stormwater runoff actually degrading the environment it seeks to protect.  I urge you to increase overall funding for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, as well as earmark funds for their stormwater management program.

As DCR says, "It's your nature."  It IS our nature, and we need to fund our environmental agencys so that they can do what needs to be done to protect our nature.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Your Name