Climate change will bring heavier storms and our sewers aren’t ready Sabrina Shankman © Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff Volunteer Clarke Esler, of the Merrimack River Watershed Council, takes a water sample from the Merrimack River in Lawrence, MA on July 14, 2021.
If the heavy rains of this summer are emblematic of our future normal as climate change progresses, then so, too, is this: Much of that rainwater overwhelms local sewers, triggering the release of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw, untreated sewage into Massachusetts waterways.
When the rain falls, as it has so many days this month, aging sewers can fill and overflow, spilling pathogen-laden sewage into the same places where people fish, swim, and boat. It’s a problem that plagues the state, even without the expected impact from climate change.
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Federal Grant to Bolster Merrimack River Against Floods, Pollution May 4, 2021
A $250,000 federal grant aims to protect the Merrimack River, which provides drinking water to over 600,000 people.
The grant will protect the river from climate change, pollution and development pressures in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, NHPR reported.
According to the U.S. Forest Service, the Merrimack River watershed is one of the most threatened in the country due to forest loss and increasing water quality risks.
The grant from the Forest Service’s Landscape Scale Restoration Program will help create a model for riverbank buffer strips made of native plant species, officials said.