The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) is seeking applications for our River Steward of Tomorrow Watershed Conservation Internship position, available for summer 2019. Based in HVA’s Stockbridge, Massachusetts’ office, the River Steward will work on a variety of projects related to water resource management and protection. The River Steward position lasts from 8 to 12 […]
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Meeting Will Explore Final GE Pollution Settlement Fund Allocations
By Josh Landes • May 1, 2019 Tonight in Lenox, Massachusetts, state and federal officials will hold a public meeting to discuss how to spend General Electric settlement money on the polluted Housatonic River Watershed. Beginning the early 1930s and stretching into the late 1970s, the multinational conglomerate dumped polychlorinated biphenyl or PCBs into […]
Berkshire Watershed Director
Housatonic Valley Association Location: Stockbridge, Massachusetts Job Type: Full-time Categories: Natural Resources/ Restoration / Project Management / When you apply for this position, please say you saw this job on Green Dream Jobs!! Description ~ The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) is a nonprofit regional conservation organization and accredited land trust located serving the entire 1,948 […]
GE pays last installment for natural resources restoration along Housatonic River
Posted Saturday, April 20, 2019 By Clarence Fanto, Eagle correspondent General Electric is ponying up $1.5 million for the fourth and final installment owed to restore natural resources along the Housatonic River Watershed damaged by five decades of PCB contamination. The payment, reported in a joint announcement by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and […]
Division of Ecologial Restoration Releases New Dam Removal Video
New Housatonic River launch in Great Barrington also sends message for river cleanup
Narain Schroeder, left, and Dennis Regan reveal the new Housatonic River boat launch Thursday on Division Street in Great Barrington. A great deal of effort in the project was clearing invasive species from the site. photos by BEN GARVER – THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE By Heather Bellow, The Berkshire Eagle GREAT BARRINGTON — […]
Gene Chague | Berkshire Woods and Waters: Regan retiring after 20 years with Housatonic Valley Association
By Gene Chague, The Berkshire Eagle Dennis Regan took the job of Berkshire Manager for the Housatonic Valley Association in 1999 because he had a strong interest in the management of water resources and loved to kayak. That was 20 years ago and he didn’t think he would be here that long. Now, on the […]
New England EPA Still Without Permanent Director
The EPA’s New England office — which serves six states and ten tribal nations — has been run by an acting administrator for three months. Deborah Szaro, the deputy regional administrator, took over in January after the former administrator stepped down to become the assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The […]
Cottage Street bridge fix could be years away
It’s not just bridges that have fallen into decay because of decades of deferred maintenance, VanDeusen said — it’s also culverts. By Heather Bellow, The Berkshire Eagle GREAT BARRINGTON — A steep hike in projected costs to repair the Cottage Street bridge might delay the bridge’s reopening — by at least five more years. Original […]
Robert Miller: The state water plan should be adopted
News Times By Robert Miller, Sunday, April 7, 2019 Photos: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media Who owns the rain? Who owns the water? Long Island Soundkeeper Bill Lucey asked those questions in February at a public hearing over the Aquarion water company’s plan to pump as much as a million gallons a […]
