New England Inland Rivers Geographic Response Strategies
GRS Projects - Massachusetts
This page summarizes active and completed GRS Development and Testing project activity in Massachusetts and provides a link to access all completed GRS documents. For all completed projects, Meeting Summaries and each project Site Selection Matrix are available. Contact EPA Region 1 or Nuka Research via the contact information provided on the Home Page to obtain project documents.
Active Projects
GRS Development
Housatonic River
August 2023 - August 2024
A total of 10 GRS will be developed for the Housatonic River in Massachusetts
An Initial Work Group/Site Selection Meeting and Final Work Group Meeting will be held over the course of this project and all work group members will be invited to attend. Field site surveys will also be conducted and a Tactics Sub-Group meeting will be conducted following the site surveys to develop GRS tactics prior to final GRS production. Meeting and event information is included below. Additional project information will be shared with the work group throughout the life of this project. For project related inquieries, contact EPA Region 1 or Nuka Research via the contact information provided on the Home Page.
Meeting/Event
Initial Work Group/Site Selection
Date/Time
Location
Documents
Thursday, November 16, 2023
1pm - 3pm
Zoom video conference
Site Surveys
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 9am-2pm
See Site Survey Schedule
Tactics Sub-Group
Final Work Group
TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Pending
Pending
GRS Validation/Testing
Blackstone River (MA & RI)
August 2023 - August 2024
1 exisiting GRS will be selected for testing and validation in Massachusetts
1 exisiting GRS will be selected for testing and validation in Rhode Island
Meeting/Event
Date/Time
Location
Documents
Initial Planning
Tuesday, October 31
10:30am - 12:00pm
Zoom video conference
Agenda
Final Planning
Tuesday, April 2
10:00am - 11:00am
Field Validation/Testing
Wednesday, June 5
Zoom video conference
Pending
Pending
Blackstone River Valley Heritage Center, Worcester
Site of BR-MA-01A
Completed Projects
2021 - 2022 Connecticut River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2022. The 10 Geographic Response Strategies that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
CR-MA-01A Northfield/Pauchaug Boat Ramp
CR-MA-01B Northfield/Riverview Picnic Area
CR-MA-01C Northfield/Millers River
CR-MA-02 Turners Falls
CR-MA-03 Sunderland
CR-MA-04A Hadley-Hatfied/Hatfield Boat Launch
CR-MA-04B Hadley-Hatfied/Mill River
CR-MA-05 Northhampton-Hadley/Elwell Island
CR-MA-06 Easthampton/Oxbow Boat Ramp
CR-MA-07A Holyoke/S. Hadley/Dry Brook
CR-MA-07B Holyoke/S. Hadley/Brunelle's Marina
CR-MA-07C Holyoke/S. Hadley/Cove Island/Holyoke Dam
CR-MA-08 Chicopee/Chicopee River
CR-MA-09 Springfiled/W. Springfield
CR-MA-10 Agawam/Westfield River
2019 - 2020 Blackstone River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2020. The 10 Geographic Response Plans that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
BR-MA-01 Worcester
BR-MA-02 Millbury North
BR-MA-03 Millbury South
BR-MA-04 Sutton/Tricentennial Park
BR-MA-05 Grafton
BR-MA-06 Riverdale Dam
BR-MA-07 Plummer's Landing
BR-MA-08 Rice City Pond
BR-MA-09 Uxbridge/Stanley Woolen Mill
BR-MA-10 Uxbridge/River Rd.
2013 - 2014 Merrimack & Charles River GRS Development Project
This project was completed in 2014. The 10 Geographic Response Plans that were developed are listed below and are available at the Regional Response Team 1 website located here.
Merrimack River
MR-MA-01 Haverhill
MR-MA-02 Lawrence
MR-MA-03 Pine Island
MR-MA-04 Lowell
MR-MA-05 North Chelmsford/Tyngsborough
Charles River
CH-MA-01 Gridley Locks/Museum of Science
CH-MA-02 Magazine Beach
CH-MA-03 Bleachery Dam
CH-MA-04 Moody St. Dam
CH-MA-05 Norumbega