The River Current || October 5, 2006 || Issue XXXVI
The bi-monthly e-newsletter of the Charles River
Watershed Association
...bringing our backyard river to your door...
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In this issue:
1)
Building a Blue Allston III - Sign up today!
2)
CRWA
Annual Meeting November 15th
3)
Brown
Bag lunch this Tuesday
4)
Additional information on toxic algal bloom
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1) Building a Blue Allston III
Urban Low Impact Development Workshop and Forum
Monday October 16, 2006, 3-8pm at the Honan Allston
Library, Allston MA
Please sign up if you would like to attend so we can
plan accordingly!
The public forum will feature the work that CRWA has
been doing in North Allston as a part of its Blue Cities
Initiative. It will include a discussion on planning for
water, green space and infrastructure redevelopment in
North Allston and how landscape design strategies can be
used at a neighborhood level for urban environmental
restoration within and outside Harvard University's new
campus. For more information or to RSVP, reply to
this email or visit our website at
http://www.crwa.org/events/2006/blueallston3.html
2) CRWA Annual Meeting with author and speaker Bill
McKibben
Mark
your calendar for CRWA’s Annual Meeting on November
15, 2006, from 5:30-9:30pm at the Newton Marriott
Hotel. Popular speaker and environmental author Bill
McKibben is the featured speaker. The first fifty people
to make a reservation will receive a free copy of
McKibben’s book, Wandering Home, so reserve you
space early by contacting Kevin Hudson at
khudson@crwa.org or calling 781-788-0007 x231. We
look forward to celebrating the accomplishments and
future strategies of CRWA and honoring dedicated
volunteers and important civic leaders.
3) Brown Bag lunch on Tuesday,
October 10th
Join
us to hear CRWA’s Urban Restoration Specialist Pallavi
Mande speak on our
Environmentally Sensitive Urban Development work
in the Zakim North area this Tuesday, October 10th
from 12:30-1:30pm at CRWA’s office in Weston.
4) Update on algal bloom
CRWA has been working with the state to determine the
best and safest way to proceed regarding the toxic
blue-green algae, microcystis, which is still present in
the Charles River from the Massachusetts Avenue bridge
eastward. Although algae levels have decreased
dramatically, warnings are still posted and red flags
are flying at the boathouses in the affected areas,
since there
is still a probability of health risks when coming into
contact with the water due to toxins that could be
present.
For the latest updates and more complete information on
the algal bloom, go to
http://www.crwa.org/water_quality/algae.html
YOUR WATERSHED 
