Plymouth-Carver Aquifer Action Plan

The towns of Plymouth, Carver, Wareham, Bourne, Plympton, Middleborough, and Kingston all depend on the Plymouth-Carver Aquifer as their principal source of water. Recognizing the critical nature of the situation of the Plymouth-Carver Aquifer as potable supply, the Massachusetts Legislature, through the leadership of Senators Murray and Pacheco, voted to create the Plymouth-Carver Aquifer Advisory Committee (PCAAC)

Working with the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA), PCAAC will develop the Plymouth-Carver Aquifer Action Plan. The Lakeville consulting engineering firm, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc. has been retained to complete this study and will coordinate monthly meetings of PCAAC. Meetings will be held on the second Thursday of each month at Carver Town Hall, 108 Main Street, Carver, Massachusetts.

Meetings will focus on the following topics:

Negotiation strategies with local developers and other users of water resources for effective management and conservation.
Education regarding legislative and administrative policies on water permitting, use, and mitigation at the state, regional, and local level.
Strategies and regulatory parameters for water resource protection for state and local governance, including but not limited to the reuse of effluent, stormwater management, resource protection model by-laws, and multiple community strategies in use elsewhere.
Dewatering and the impacts of earth removal activities on groundwater levels.
Relationship of private water supplies on existing and future potential water supplies (i.e. impact of private community supplies; impact of irrigation projects).

Attendance by the general public is encouraged.

For further information, please contact Jim Riordan, AICP, project manager, Fuss & O'Neill, Inc. at (508) 946-1747 ext. 4571 or John Clarkeson, Assistant Director of Water Policy for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs at (617) 626-1175.