Government Help in Massachusetts

DEP • DEM • RIVERWAYS • MA GIS • USGS • Fish & Wildlife •

This is a partial list of sites and personnel that can help volunteer monitors in the Commonwealth

MA Department of Environmental Protection

 

 

 

Visit any of these 4 sites to find regional information including emergency phone numbers:
Western Region
Central Region
Northeast Region
Southeast Region

Rick McVoy Lake and aquatic plants specialist, responsible for 305(b) reports
Warren Kimball Water quality standards specialist
Mark Mattson TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) specialist

• 1998 Massachusetts Section 303(d) List of Waters: List of impaired water bodies (pdf)
• 2002 Context and Rationale for Assessing and Reporting the Quality of Massachusetts Surface Waters (pdf)
• 2002 Proposed List of Individual Categories of Water (303d list) (pdf)
• Massachusetts Surface Water Quality Standards Regulations
• List of Certified Mass. Laboratories (pdf)

MA Department of Conservation and Recreation

 

 

Manages state parks and has an office of water resources
Lakes and Ponds Program: grants for lake restoration and monitoring

MA Geographic Information System

 

 

Source of electronic maps and data

MA Division of Fish and Game

 

 

Bathymetric maps are available for state lakes and ponds

Riverways

 

 

Adopt a Stream program, river advocacy

United States Geologic Survey

 

 

Water data, education and outreach
Chris Waldron head of the Satellite Ground Truthing Project