Welcome SWIM's New Website!
Since 1984, Nahant SWIM, Inc. (Safer Waters in Massachusetts) has worked to protect the waters of the North Shore from pollution. Our goal is to protect both Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay.
SWIM has worked by participating in the planning and implementation process, by contributing scientific and technical expertise, through community organization, through citizen water quality monitoring, through working with other environmental groups, and through public education.
SWIM ACTIVITIES
* EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS SUCH AS EARTH DAY ACTIVITIES
* EXPERT SPEAKERS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
* TESTIFYING AT HEARINGS ON URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
* PROVIDING WRITTEN COMMENTS ON ISSUES FACING NAHANT
* EMAIL UPDATES ON NAHANT ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS
Latest News:
SWIM Meeting Monday, September 13, 2010 - 7PM
Northeastern University, East Point
SWIM will meet at Northeastern University Marine Science Center in Nahant on Monday, September 13th at 7 pm. On the agenda: what can SWIM do to think globally, act locally? This is the time of year that SWIM was made for. We literally can go for a SWIM, and we are down there on the sand and along the rocks appreciating and observing our environment in an intimate way that most of us don't do year round. So for SWIM, summer is a time to carefully and caringly assess our course for the following seasons. Safer Waters in Massachusetts (SWIM), a member of the Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM), was a co-sponsor of ELM's Gubernatorial Environmental Forum in Boston on June 29. For a full report and video, click on www.environmentalleague.org.
Click here to find out more about Nahant Important Bird Area!
The shallow bay, mudflats and beaches of the Nahant Important Bird Area attract thousands of shorebirds and gulls. Many migratory birds rest and feed here in spring and fall, and birds from the Arctic and Canada winter in Nahant waters.
Brian Harrington, a leading expert on migratory birds, has written that a wind energy project on the Nahant causeway could lead to high bird mortality.
Click here to read a Letter from Brian Harrington!
SWIM Officers 2010
| Margaret Hinrichs President |
William Crawford Vice President |
| Anita Reiner Treasurer |
Tracy O'Shea Secretary |
| Contact SWIM: Tracy O'Shea |
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| Safer Waters in Massachusetts (SWIM) c/o Northeastern University Marine Science Center. East Point, 430 Nahant Road, Nahant, MA 01908 Email: nahantswim@verizon.net Web: www.nahant.org/swim |
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"Roseway" Photo Credit: Robert A. Wilson
"Boston Pilot Boat" Photo Credit: Paul A. Wilson
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