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Mystic River Watershed Association
Improved Water Management and Green Infrastructure
Horn Pond, Horn Pond Brook and greater Winchester/Woburn
20 Academy Street, STE 306
The Mystic River Watershed Association (MyRWA), in partnership with the City of
Woburn and Town of Winchester, proposes a collaborative project to improve
habitat, flow, water quality, and fish passage in the Horn Pond and Horn Pond
Brook tributary watershed to the Aberjona River. The proposed project will protect
the spawning grounds for Blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis) and Alewife (Alosa
pseudoharengus), restore wetland hydrology, improve water quality and reduce
stormwater runoff by
1) evaluating drinking water withdrawal management scenarios and
2) installing green infrastructure stormwater management within the Horn Pond,
Horn Pond Brook, and Wedge Pond subwatersheds in the communities of
Winchester and Woburn.
Improved management of water withdrawals and stormwater runoff will help to
reduce the impacts on stream flow that impair river herring habitat during critical
spawning and migration periods. The installation of green infrastructure stormwater
management will reduce nutrient pollution, increase recharge of groundwater
supplies, and decrease stormwater runoff and temperatures. The green
infrastructure project will develop replicable designs that can be installed over and
over in these two communities yielding the accrual and expansion of benefits in the
future.
There is considerable matching effort and resources being coordinated for green
infrastructure. Both municipal engineers are committed to this work. The parties will
leverage ongoing work and financial resources at Wildwood Ave. ( ~$3m,
Winchester), 319 funding in hand (MyRWA) and ongoing efforts for a stormwater
utility (Winchester).
