Reports and Documents on Charles River
Reports
EPA Reports & Documents
- Sustainable Stormwater Funding Evaluation for the Upper Charles River Communities of Bellingham, Franklin, and Milford, MA, September 2011 (pdf) (19.7 MB)
- Appendices (pdf) (4.7 MB)
- Stormwater Funding for the Upper Charles River Communities, September 2011 (pdf) (933 K)
- Draft Residual Designation Permit, April 2010
- Optimal Stormwater Management Plan Alternatives: A Demonstration Project in Three Upper Charles River Communities, December 2009 (pdf) (6.67 MB)
- Preliminary Residual Designation for Charles River, November 2008 (pdf) (313 K)
- Lower Charles River Basin Nutrient (Phosphorus) TMDL October 2007 (pdf) (121 K)
- 10 Year Report (2005) (pdf) (156 K)
A comprehensive program overview developed to mark 10 years of the Clean Charles Initiative - EPA's Water Quality Reports on the Lower Charles River (1998-2008)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 1998 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (345 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 1999 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (754 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 2000 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (759 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 2001 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (647 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 2002 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (911 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report 2003 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (986 K)
- Clean Charles 2005 Water Quality Report: 2004 Core Monitoring Program (pdf) (1.2 MB)
- EPA's Annual Water Quality Report on the Lower Charles River 2005 (pdf) (2.1 MB)
- EPA's Annual Water Quality Report on the Lower Charles River 2006 (pdf) (1.5 MB)
- EPA's Water Quality Report on the Lower Charles 2007 - 2008 (pdf) (1.5 MB)
Other Charles River Reports
- Charles River Fish Contaminant Survey, April 2001 (pdf) (15.1 MB)
- Results of Color and Clarity Monitoring in the Charles River During Spring and Summer of 2000 (pdf) (1.7 MB)
- Charles River Water Quality Survey, December 1998 (pdf) (2.3 MB)
- Charles River Sediment/Water Quality Analysis Project Report, January 1997 (pdf) (2.3 MB)
Links
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
- The Charles River, Eastern Massachusetts: Scientific Information in Support of Environmental Restoration; General Information Product 47; (2007)
- Water Resources and the Urban Environment, Lower Charles River Watershed, Massachusetts, 1630–2005 (2005)
- Spatial Distribution, Temporal Variability, and Chemistry of the Salt Wedge in the Lower Charles River, Massachusetts, June 1998 to July 1999
- Potential Effects of Structural Controls and Street Sweeping on Stormwater Loads to the Lower Charles River, Massachusetts; 2000
- Measured and Simulated Runoff to the Lower Charles River, Massachusetts, October 1999-September 2000
- Distribution and Potential for Adverse Biological Effects of Inorganic Elements and Organic Compounds in Bottom Sediment, Lower Charles River, Mass; 2000
Charles River Watershed Association
CRWA Reports on a variety of science-based information regarding the Charles River, its tributaries, and watershed
Rocky Mountain Institute
RMI Daylighting Report (pdf) (2.9 MB)
EPA funded and partnered with Rocky Mountain Institute to conduct the first national research paper on the benefits of daylighting, i.e. uncovering conduits and pipes that carry stormwater so that they become open and visible streams as they originally existed.
New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission (NEIWPCC)
Lower Charles River Demonstration Project Gunderboom Beach Protection System; 2002 (pdf) (320 K)
Two studies assessing the performance of the Gunderboom system as a means of creating an engineered swimming area on the Charles