The RI Rivers Council held its 2021 Annual Meeting via Zoom on March 10 from 3 to 5pm. This is the Rhode Island Rivers Council’s 30th year!
At the meeting DEM Director Janet Coit read a letter congratulating The RI Rivers Council on 30 years of advocating for Rhode Island’s rivers. Read the letter.
The Rhode Island Rivers Council has designated ten watershed councils in Rhode Island to represent the interests of their rivers.
See the list of member Watershed Councils and their websites.
The RIRC Booklet provides an overview of the functions of the Rhode Island Rivers Council as well as information about each of the 10 member watershed councils in Rhode Island.
The RIRC will be holding it’s Oct. meeting the DEM Office of Water Resources Room 280C AND via Zoom on Wed., Oct. 13 at 3pm. See the agenda for details.
For information on past meetings see the Meetings and Presentations page.
I am always in awe, especially as I have just driven part of the course, driven, not walked, that this fish has not only found its way up the Woonasquatucket, not the Moshassuck, at the confluence at Citizens’ Bank/ RISD downtown, but into the Providence River, not the Blackstone. And before that its school swam from offshore Virginia – Maryland, up the coast and into Narragansett Bay, swam from Pt. Judith… Continue reading
For 200 years or longer, dams have blocked a number of important species of anadromous fish from completing their lifecycle.
Alewife, blueback herring, and American shad are just a few of the anadromous species that live their adult life in saltwater but return to freshwater to spawn and whose populations had virtually disappeared from the Pawtuxet River watershed following the Industrial Revolution. Continue reading
