MET: Recent Awards

Mass Environmental Trust: Unrestricted Grant Round, FY10

Statewide

Belmont – Massachusetts Association of Conservation: $30,000

• To expand training for conservation commissioners 

Norwell – North and South Rivers Watershed Association: $25,750

• To establish an inter-regional, long-term program to monitor water temperature and water level in anadromous fish runs in Massachusetts Bay
  

Cape and Islands

Provincetown – Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies: $50,000

• To operate the Large Whale Disentanglement Program aimed at protecting whales that get caught in fishing gear or debris 

Wellfleet – Massachusetts Audubon Society: $22,000

• To develop an artificial oyster reef in Wellfleet 
  

Central

Petersham – Harvard University, Harvard Forest: $25,000

• To research innovative forest conservation financing methods 

Fitchburg – Nashua River Watershed Association: $19,540

• To engage and educate residents from the Cleghorn neighborhood, students, and other interested stakeholders about how to improve water quality and enhance recreational opportunities on the North Nashua River
  

Greater Boston

Canton – Neponset River Watershed Association: $21,625

• To track the presence of optical brighteners, which are found in common laundry and cleaning products, to identify sources of water pollution in the Neponset River

Newton – Silent Spring Institute: $45,000

• To test public water supply wells on Cape Cod to establish current levels of contamination by emerging contaminants such as endocrine disrupting compounds and pharmaceuticals
  

Metro West

Franklin and Bellingham – Charles River Watershed Association: $50,000

• To develop a website for phosphorus trading to meet forthcoming water quality regulatory program requirements from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the EPA 

Concord – Organization for the Assabet River Inc.: $6,515

• To assess stream continuity for fish habitat in the Nashoba/Fort Pond Brook sub-basin of the Assabet and Concord River watershed
  

North

Gloucester – Whale Center of New England: $20,000

• To launch a new curriculum that uses marine mammal standing response programs as a vehicle for teaching science and math principles in grades five through eight

Lowell – Merrimack River Watershed Council Inc.: $35,000

• To conduct water quality monitoring in the Merrimack River

Salem – Salem Sound Coastwatch: $18,500

• To develop and implement a citizen adopt-a-beach program for beaches along Salem Sound
  

South

Kingston – Jones River Watershed Association Inc.: $20,000

• To support Year 2 of a restoration and education program in the Jones River Watershed 

Plymouth – Town of Plymouth: $30,000

• To implement a water quality monitoring program in 16 ponds and streams in Plymouth 

Westport – Westport River Watershed Alliance: $10,000

• To expand water quality monitoring in the Westport River watershed 
  

West

Belchertown and Palmer – Pioneer Valley Planning Commission: $25,000

• To study whether the Upper Bondsville Dam on the Swift River should be removed or retained

Cheshire – Town of Cheshire: $26,000

• To restore habitat in Thunder Brook through removal a dam and replacement of an undersized culvert 

Greenfield – American Rivers: $50,000

• To conduct engineering and permitting for dam removal and fish passage projects on the Green River 

Greenfield – Franklin Regional Council of Governments: $30,000

• To create a web-based database for tracking septic system and private well locations and use, and private well water quality 

Pittsfield – Berkshire Environmental Action Team: $21,819

• To gather data and create a geographic information system and maps to inform local and regional planners about culverts and bridges in need of upgrading to improve hydrologic and wildlife passage 

Additional Past Awards   (1988 through 2007)