SUASCO WATERSHED CALENDAR:

DECEMBER 2011

 

This calendar is provided courtesy of the SuAsCo Watershed Community Council.  Its purpose is to publicize meetings on issues of interest to the SuAsCo Watershed community.  Effort is made to include all appropriate items of which we are aware.

 

EVENTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  PLEASE CHECK BEFORE ATTENDING AN EVENT.  For continual calendar updates, please visit the Council’s website at www.suasco.org

 

December 1:  Clean Energy Forum: “Assessing Renewable Energy on Landfill and Large Municipal Sites”:  10:00 AM to noon at MAPC, 60 Temple Place, 3rd Floor, Boston – register on-line at www.mapc.org/events

 

December 3:  Lecture and book signing by Arthur Haines on “Flora Novae Angliae”:  1:30 PM at Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham - please RSVP to Lana Reed at lreed@newenglandwild.org

 

December 6:  Concord Conservation Coffee:  7:30 AM at Planning & Land Management Building, First Floor Meeting Room, 141 Keyes Road, Concord – for more information, please call the Concord Division of Natural Resources at 978-318-3285

 

December 7:  New England Water Law and Policy Conference: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites, 265 Lakeside Avenue, Marlborough - $200 registration fee - convened by the American Ground Water Trust – for more information, contact Jacqueline Daoust at jdaoust@agwt.org or visit http://www.agwt.org/events/2011/2011MA_Legal_Program.pdf

December 9:  MAGIC Legislative Breakfast:  8:00 to 10:00 AM at the award-winning LEED Silver Samuel Hadley Public Services Building, 201 Bedford Street, Lexington – for more information and to RSVP by December 6, please contact Manisha Bewtra at 617-451-2770 x2081 or mbewtra@mapc.org or visit the MAGIC website at

www.mapc.org/subregions/magic

 

December 13:  Conference: “Municipal Funding Strategies for Stormwater Management”: 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM at Raytheon Company, 50 Apple Hill Drive, Tewksbury – speakers on municipal stormwater funding programs from Acton, Franklin, Newton, Reading, and consulting firm AMEC; as well as presentations by DEP’s Fred Civian and EPA’s Thelma Murphy - conference sponsored by SuAsCo Watershed Community Council – intended for municipal staff and officials responsible for compliance with stormwater regulations, as well as anyone interested in stormwater management – conference fee of $30 - pre-registration required  by December 9 at http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=gyxccleab&oeidk=a07e5clcs0r7b6db918

 

December 13:  Sudbury-Assabet-Concord Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council Meeting:  7:00 to 9:00 PM at location to be determined – for more information, please contact Lee Steppacher, National Park Service at 617-223-5225 or Lee_Steppacher@nps.gov

 

December 14:  Nyanza Natural Resource Damages Trustee Council public information meeting to present the Nyanza Draft Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment:  7:00 PM at the Framingham Town Hall (Memorial Building), 150 Concord Street, Blumer Room, Framingham – the Draft Plan is available online at http://www.mass.gov/dep/cleanup/sites/nrd/nrdny.htm - written comments will be accepted through January 23, 2012 by mailing to Nyanza Trustee Council, c/o MassDEP, Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, One Winter Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108, Attn:  Karen Pelto; or emailing to Karen.Pelto@state.ma.us - for more information, please contact Karen Pelto at 617-292-5785

 

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!