by Kim Kastens, Brewster Conant, Jr., and Katarina Spasojevic Overview: Why Salt Pollution Matters Organisms and ecosystems that evolved to live in fresh water suffer if they are submerged in salty water. Salty water can harm both plants and animals, and salt-stressed aquatic ecosystems experience a loss of biodiversity. Too much road salt getting into the… Continue reading →
Q&A with 2026 Candidates for AWD Commissioner
This year, there are two candidates running for the position of Commissioner of the Acton Water District (AWD): John Petersen and Stephen Stuntz. This post contains the candidates’ answers to questions prepared by the Green Acton Water Committee. The Acton Water District is an independent government entity, separate from Acton’s municipal government. As such, it is led… Continue reading →
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Save Acton Wildlife
The Green Acton Anticoagulant Rodenticide campaign works to eliminate the use of anticoagulant rodenticides, including first- and second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides, on both public and private property in Acton.
Salt Pollution in Acton’s Waters
The Green Acton Water Committee has been collaborating with OARS (Watershed Organization for the Sudbury Assabet and Concord Rivers) and with environmentalists in neighboring towns to better understand the excessive and increasing levels of salt in Acton’s natural waters (brooks, river, ponds, and groundwater). Excessive levels of salt can be harmful to aquatic organisms that… Continue reading →
Where Does the Salt in Nashoba Brook Come From?
by Kim Kastens, Brewster Conant, Jr., and Peter Severance Summary The Green Acton Water Committee collaborated with the Organization for the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers (OARS) to survey the specific conductance (SC) of the water in Nashoba Brook and its tributaries in Acton and Westford. SC is an indicator of salt concentration in the… Continue reading →
Vote Yes on #33: the Tree Clearing Delay Bylaw!
Green Acton strongly supports a yes vote on the Tree Clearing Delay Bylaw, Article 33, at the second night of Acton Town Meeting, May 6. This bylaw, if passed, would adopt a process that will ultimately result in better town regulation of tree clearing — including preventing developers from taking trees down before securing a… Continue reading →
Vote Yes on #32: the Leaf Blower Control Bylaw!
Green Acton strongly supports a yes vote on the Leaf Blower Control Bylaw, Article 32, at the second night of Acton Town Meeting, May 6. Gas-powered leaf blowers produce harmful and unreasonable amounts of noise, toxic air pollution, and climate damaging greenhouse gases. Now is the time to begin the transition away from this equipment.… Continue reading →
Acton Clean-up Week: April 17–27
Again this year, Green Acton is sponsoring Acton Clean-up Week — a time to do a community spring cleaning (and pull invasive garlic mustard)! • Learn more and/or sign up to help: ActonCleanup.info • Go straight to signing up: bit.ly/ActonCleanup • See info on pulling garlic mustard: https://www.harvard-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif676/f/uploads/garlic_mustard_factsheet.pdf
Q&A with 2025 Candidates for AWD Commissioner
This year, there are two candidates running for the position of Commissioner of the Acton Water District (AWD): John Petersen and Barry Rosen. This post contains the candidates’ answers to questions prepared by the Green Acton Water Committee. The Acton Water District is an independent government entity, separate from Acton’s municipal government. As such, it is led… Continue reading →