Chicopee plans to remove 2 dams in Szot Park, eliminating ponds
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CHICOPEE – The city is starting a three-year project that will change the look of Szot Park, eliminate a potential safety hazard to the community’s electrical system and improve water quality for the Chicopee River and Abbey Brook.
State and local officials recently unveiled a plan that will remove two dams that create the two ponds in Szot Park and replace the seriously-undersized culvert that runs under Front Street and leads to the Chicopee Electric Light property.
“It is returning the waterway back to its natural state,” said Ronald S. Amidon, commissioner for the state Department of Fish and Game.
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Mar 9, 2021
ROCHESTER Part of a $285,000 round of state funding will be used to help protect and restore the historic Stuart Bogs in Rochester.
The state announced on March 9 that $40,000 of the state grants will go to the Stuart Bogs project, which part of Division of Ecological Restoration’s Priority Projects Program.
The Buzzards Bay Coalition will work with the division on the protection project, which involves protection of approximately 240 acres, including historic wetlands now part of an active cranberry farm.
Once protected, approximately 60 acres of retired farmland will be restored to historic wetland conditions and integrated within the broader landscape.