WATERSHEDS in Western Massachusetts

No part of New ENgland like Western Massachusetts would be the same
without water -- a little or a lot of it. Keepng it in supply,
ccontrol, and safe is the modern management of its resources. A few
links below for the 'water works' in Western Massachusetts.

<a href=http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/state.cfm?statepostal=MA><img
src=http://www.epa.gov/surf/states/images/ma.gif></a>

US-EPA's 'Surf Your Water-Shed' provides maps by watershed ..and also
denotes the affected waterbody's permitted pollution -the Federal
permits and so on.

<a href=http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/state.cfm?statepostal=MA>EPA-Surf Your
Watershed</a>

USGS's Streamflow data is a computer repted fllod guage at selected mill
and other dams in the area.

<a href=http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ma/nwis/rt>Real-Time River & Stream
Flow Data for Western Massachusetts</a>
from the US Geological Survey

The US Corps of Engineers still leads the 'works' with its major dams
and reservoirs in Western Massachusetts.

<a href=http://www.nae.usace.army.mil/recreati/damlist.htm>US Corps of
Engineers - New England Dam & Flood Control Project List</a>

Other Projects at the State level are handled with the Department of
Conservation which absorbed the MDC which manages the Quabbn Reservoir.

Mnemonic for remembering the towns flooded under Quabbin Reservoir:

"Pretty Good Dam, Eh ?

Prescott-Geenwich-Dana-Enfield

<a href=http://www.mass.gov/dcr/rec-act.htm>Mass State Dept. of
Conservation</a>