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Ipswich River named among America s Most Endangered Rivers
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This Massachusetts river is among the top 10 most endangered in the country, called ‘poster child’ for outdated water system
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In Ipswich, outdated laws are keeping much of the watershed from being subject to regulation, officials said. Around 80% of the roughly 30 million gallons of water that is withdrawn from the river every day for human use is exported and gone forever, according to Wayne Castonguay, executive director of the Ipswich River Watershed Association. (Courtesy Steve Fantone/Ipswich River Watershed Association)
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Last summer, at the height of Massachusetts’ worst drought in years, the 35-mile-long Ipswich River was flowing at a meager rate of 0.5 cubic feet per second “basically nothing.”
The mouth of the Ipswich River. (Courtesy Ipswich River Watershed Association)
The Ipswich River winds along 45 miles of northeastern Massachusetts, through hardwood forests and marshy floodplains, from the town of Burlington to Plum Island Sound. It s known as one of the best rivers in New England for trout fishing, and it also supplies drinking water to more than 350,000 people.
But stretches of the river have run bone dry in recent years, killing fish, damaging ecosystems and threatening the drinking water supply of more than a dozen communities.
A new report from the national advocacy group American Rivers lists the Ipswich as the eighth most endangered river in the country, listing excessive water withdrawals as the leading threat.
As climate change makes more droughts likely, state plans to issue controversial new policy that may increase water restrictions
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