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[Water Conservation
| Water Quality
Protection |
Conservation
Programs in Assabet Watershed Towns]
Bill Byrne, MDFW
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Fish need healthy streams to survive and thrive. In the case
of the Assabet and its tributaries, that means flowing, clean
water. Unfortunately, poor water quality and inadequate flow
in the Assabet and its tributaries is damaging fish habitat
in our watershed, resulting in smaller populations of fluvial
(river) fish such as brook trout and fallfish and larger populations
of "lake" species such as carp and large-mouth bass.
The following pages have information about how you, through
thoughtful land and water use, can help improve fish habitat
in the Assabet watershed. These same actions will also help
protect your drinking water -- which also depends on clean
water in good supply in the watershed.
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