South Middleton Dam Removal
View of the South Middleton Dam from the north bank of the Ipswich River
West Street Culvert Replacement – Parker River
Inlet of newly installed box culvert that passes the Parker River under West Street in…
Kent’s Island Creek Restoration
This project improved tidal flow to 47 acres of coastal salt marsh in the William…
Beach Dune Restoration: Newbury, Newburyport, & Salisbury
Phase 1: Dune nourishment and re-vegetation in Newbury, MA using innovative fencing and native vegetation…
Invasive Phragmites Eradication – Stage Pool, Plum Island
Ongoing since 2008, the Parker River National wildlife Refuge has been eradicating phragmites form an…
Flow Monitoring in Upper Parker River Watershed
Discontinued This monitoring effort was discontinued at the end of 2012. Monitoring had taken place…
PIE Rivers Stream Continuity Survey
Ipswich River Watershed Interns conducting road-stream crossing surveys in 2014. From left to right: Shannon…
Invasive Green Crab Removal
The invasive European green crab (Carcinus maenes) has been a destructive force in the northern…
Central Street Fishway Restoration
Renovated Central Street fishway on the Parker River in Byfield, MA (2014)
Streamflow Monitoring in the Parker and Ipswich Watersheds
The Ipswich River Watershed Association and the Parker River Clean Water Association are working together…
Lower Ipswich Bacteria Source Tracking
Ryan O’Donnell places an optical brightener sampler in Saltonstall Brook, part of an effort to…
Georgetown Low Impact Development (LID) Bylaws
Location of the Town of Georgetown within the PIE-Rivers region
Invasive Pepperweed Removal
The pepperweed control project is designed to increase the health of salt marshes in the…
Maplecroft Farm Land Protection
In 2010, the Town of Ipswich, The Trust for Public Land, Essex County Greenbelt and…