A swimmable Charles River? Yes we can! — Letter to the Editor
Forty years after the cleanup of the Charles River began, we still cannot safely swim in its waters.
Thank you, Natick Report, for including our letter to make the Charles River swimmable in today’s issue.
“The only swimming that takes place in the Charles’ “Lower Basin”—i.e., the area between Watertown and Boston Harbor—is via special permit, and those events are frequently cancelled due to poor water quality. But now we have an opportunity to change that.”
Read more in the Waltham Times, Lincoln Squirrel, Fig City News, Holliston Reporter, Westwood Minute, HopNews, Lexington Observer, and Boston Sun.
