KEEP OUR TOWNS BLUE!
Protect our watershed's water resources!

Phone numbers:
Lt. Governor Kerry Healy: 617-725-4005
DEP Commissioner Robert Golledge: 617-292-5856

CRWA has identified three essential talking points for contacting decision-makers.  Please be sure to cover them in a phone call, email or letter.

• Talking Point 1: I support tying outdoor watering restrictions to low streamflows in the Charles because this is will help to protect fish and habitat.  If the Department decides to allow two-day a week lawn watering regardless of low streamflows, it should at least establish a low streamflow cutoff when lawn watering can only be done with hand-held hoses. 

• Talking Point 2: Basins that are unassessed for stress should not be lumped in with low stress basins, which have lower conservation requirements.  Instead, they should be presumed to be medium stress.  Just because they are unassessed does not mean these basins are not stressed already.

• Talking Point 3: Because Towns have two calendar years to achieve the conservation standards for residential use, leaky pipes and summertime use, I do not support an enforcement margin that gives towns an additional three years before they actually have to meet these standards.  Our rivers and streams can't afford to wait five years for protection.  The enforcement margin will end up being a shield from enforcement. 

More Advocacy Resources

Talking points and phone numbers

Sample Letter to Lt. Governor Kerry Healey and DEP Commissioner Robert Golledge

Water Resources and the Charles River: A Fact Sheet

Media coverage