How Healthy is Your Water?

Outer Weweantic River Snapshot

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Bay Health Index (5-year average)
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Supporting Data

Outer Weweantic River: Briarwood Beach (Station WW4)
Nitrogen, algae, and water clarity measurements taken just off the rocks on the east side of the point of the Briarwood Beach community. (41.732204, -70.744372)
Total Nitrogen
Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen
Total Organic Nitrogen
Algal Pigments
Total Pigments
Water Clarity
Yearly Average
Outer Weweantic River: Beaverdam Creek (Station WW4A)
Dissolved oxygen and water clarity measurements taken from shore at private dock just south of Beaverdam Creek. (41.731919, -70.736873)
Dissolved Oxygen
All Measurements
Average of Lowest 20%
Water Clarity
Yearly Average
Outer Weweantic River: Mouth (Station WW5)
Nitrogen, dissolved oxygen, algae, and water clarity measurements taken from a boat in the channel near the river mouth. (41.723733, -70.726659)
Total Nitrogen
Dissolved Inorganic Nitrogen
Total Organic Nitrogen
Dissolved Oxygen
All Measurements
Average of Lowest 20%
Algal Pigments
Total Pigments
Water Clarity
Yearly Average
Bay Health data is funded in part by the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.
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Top Stories on the Weweantic River

Recent Projects Protect Additional Lands, All Around the Watershed

December proved to be a busy month for land protection, with the Buzzards Bay Coalition closing on four properties, each of which has distinct characteristics that contribute to Bay health.

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Coalition celebrates grand opening of Weweantic River Reserve at Horseshoe Mill in Wareham

Officials and community celebrate the opening of the Weweantic River Reserve, a beautiful new park and natural area in Wareham.

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Removal of dam at Horseshoe Mill will help Weweantic River’s native fish thrive again

Two years from now, the Weweantic River’s rich populations of migratory fish will once again be able to swim freely to their freshwater spawning areas when the crumbling remnants of a dam are removed from the Coalition’s Horseshoe Mill property in Wareham.

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Working to Save Buzzards Bay

The Buzzards Bay Coalition is a membership-supported organization dedicated to improving the health of the Buzzards Bay ecosystem for all through education, conservation, research, and advocacy.

We work to protect clean water on the Bay and on the land: