Massacusetts NFC Helps Deploy Temperature Loggers in Cheesecake Brook...
Members of NFC, CRWA, and Boston College onsite at Cheesecake Brook…
As part of a large scale restoration project, Massachusetts NFC has been working with Charles River Watershed Association to bring some fish expertise to Cheesecake Brook. Cheesecake Brook is a heavily altered urban stream that has been straightened, dredged, walled, buried, blocked from the river, and subject to all kinds of secondary inputs.
Much of what enters Cheesecake Brook occurs underground. Other inputs come from above ground stormwater drains. In one case, far less water disappears underground than what reappears at the next point teh stream daylights. Temperature loggers placed at the multiple daylighting locations and other critical points will help us understand highs, lows, spikes, averages, and trends…
The group was joined by members of Boston College who were there to collect water samples for testing. Working as a team, we will learn more about Cheesecake Brook in the next few months than was likely known in the years before the project started.
special thanks to ma nfc board members brian hutchison and jeff moore for helping to deploy the loggers which will provide the team with critical data about the stream. and to max rome and Emilia Dick Fiora Del Fabro of crwa for inviting us to get involved in their project.
