We've been waiting for the definitive regional environmental report card on our western Boston corridor area of Northwest and Southwest Cambridge for a long time, and here it is in MyRWA's Mystic Messenger you can subscribe to. However, Little River is not shown as extensive a water body as it actually is on the map if you go solely by the lettering. IT is over 1 linear mile and flows from end of LIttle Pond to Alewife Brook through part of Belmont and all of Cambridge. Little Pond is not identified. Winn Brook culvert received the 'F'. Our Little River received a 'D-' and the Messenger pages show what such a status rating means for people.

Highly Grateful to MyRWA for publicizing and giving ample awareness in their Fall Messenger of our compromised water quality as well as other highly rated water bodies in the Mystic River watershed.. And now we at FAR have a productive and useful citizens proposal (River Restore) to 'get to work' on improving this wonderful resource to our city and towns and bringing in greater financial and volunteer resources to tackle this daunting threat to people and wildlife and to restore the general Mystic ecological balance that we'll need for future health and safety of our communities..

Mystic Messenger Fall 2015 contains the report.