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	Housatonic, Massachusetts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Housatonic is a census-designated place and village located in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
		Housatonic is located at 42°15'8" North, 73°22'3" West (42.252122, -73.367537)
		, near the head of the Housatonic River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Housatonic,_Massachusetts (405 words)

	Roanoke.com Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Housatonic River is Connecticut's beautiful and natural playground--a haven for hikers, bikers, campers, anglers, birders, and canoeists.
		According to legend, the Paugussett Indians migrating eastward from their Algonquian homeland were the first to discover the Housatonic, naming the river "Ousatonic," meaning "place beyond the mountains." The tribe lived along the river's banks, fishing trout and farming the land.
		In the towns along the river near the Housatonic State Forest--Falls Village, West Cornwall, and Cornwall Bridge--the river is at its most ferocious, its surging waters often tearing at the banks, creating small islands of pine trees and hardwoods out of what was once riverside land.
	roanoke.atevo.com /misc/print_article/0,3869,3493,00.html (713 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Recontamination feared for river getting cleanup
		A stretch of the polluted Housatonic River that is being scrubbed clean with the help of more than $45 million in taxpayer money is in danger of becoming recontaminated.
		One of the most PCB-polluted rivers in the country, the Housatonic is five years into a massive cleanup from more than 40 years of PCB contamination from a former electric transformer plant on the 254-acre General Electric property near the river.
		Today, signs are posted along the river warning people not to eat the fish they catch, and patches of riverbank with especially high levels of PCBs are cordoned off from the public with chain-link fences.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/03/recontamination_feared_for_river_getting_cleanup (537 words)

	Guide to the Lower Housatonic River
		The HVA is helping many local groups in various projects along the river as part of the Housatonic RiverBelt Greenway; a program to improve public use and appreciation of the river.
		The Housatonic River is generally sheltered but it can get choppy, particularly near the Sound.
		A couple was killed on Lake Housatonic last year when they lost power for their lights and their boat was rammed in the dark.
	borntoexplore.org /river (784 words)

	American Whitewater - NWRI - Housatonic - Bull's Bridge Bulls Bridge Dam to Gaylordsville (south of Kent on Route 7) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This drop can be scouted on river right but it probably best scouted while in your warm cloths by hiking a short trail that is across the (non-covered) bridge from the parking area.
		It is a short rapid with a river wide ledge that is class III or IV depending on the river level.
		The takeout is on river left in the parking area at the hydro plant.
	www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/id/448 (1597 words)

	Press Releases 2000 - Trout Unlimited
		Trout in the Housatonic River survive the hot months of the summer by seeking cold water found at the mouths of tributaries and at spring seeps.
		Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Fly Fishermen's Association (HFFA) point to a series of fish kills in the late 1980s and early 1990s caused by low water flows and lethal water temperatures that relates the fish kills to hydropower releases caused by hydropower releases during periods of low water flows and lethal water temperatures.
		TU is a member of the Housatonic Coalition, a diverse group of concerned citizens who have worked toward the recovery of the famed river.
	www.tu.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=280766&ct=329932 (929 words)

	Housatonic River
		April 14, 2004 (Washington, DC) American Rivers and its partners today named the Housatonic River as one of the nation's Most Endangered Rivers for 2004, citing the prospect that the General Electric Company will get off the hook for cleaning up toxic PCBs that threaten public health along the length of the river.
		The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut have advised residents not to eat fish and wildlife from the river.
		Housatonic River not unique While the situation along the Housatonic River is particularly urgent, it is sadly far from unique.
	www.mianustu.org /hous_pcb.htm (856 words)

	Fly Fishing the Housatonic River in Connecticut
		The Housatonic River is in Northwestern Connecticut and flows out of the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.
		This river is a tremendous trout fishery, and is considered by many as one of the best in the eastern half of the United States.
		The northern reaches of the Housatonic in Massachusetts are comprised of the East and Southwest branches.
	www.flyfishingconnection.com /housatonicriver.html (738 words)

	OutdoorsBest Forums: Housatonic river--are you for or against two proposed catch-and-release areas?
		The river is open to all anglers, and an excellent, preexisting fishery supports angler effort in these areas and rewards anglers with plenty of catchable fish of a variety of species.
		I was in the River on numerous occasions when Schwietzer-Mauduit papers in Lenoxdale was polluting the river with paper pulp and hot water, and I made calls to the DEP which resulted in the cessation of that pollution.
		I was on the river when the Hydroelectric facility at the Glendale stretch was managing flows in violation of their license, and letters that I wrote to the conservation commission of Stockbridge were instrumental in getting that problem fixed.
	outdoorsbest.zeroforum.com /zerothread?id=74370&postid=819355 (12087 words)

	PCB Contamination in the Housatonic River
		The objective of this project was to clearly present the complex PCB contamination data of the Housatonic River.
		An interactive examination of the Housatonic River animation has been found to be an effective visual aid for providing the viewer with a qualitative assessment of complex data.
		Among these parameters are the density of measurements along the river over time, the distribution of the relatively higher levels of PCBs along the river, and the migration, or lack of migration, of PCBs down river and deeper into the river bed.
	www.ase.tufts.edu /cee/faculty/minardi/hri/hri.htm (784 words)

	Home Page
		Housatonic River Summer is a summer-long celebration of the arts, culture and nature within the Housatonic Valley.
		The concept of River Summer is to promote events that take place during this time within the Housatonic Valley that relate to the arts, culture and nature.
		The Housatonic River Summer Fest and its promotions will be taking place in the Housatonic River watershed region from Pittsfield, MA to Southbury, CT. Events will be / are scheduled continuously from June 18 through September 18, 2005, and will take place at many different (occasionally concurrent) locations in the watershed area.
	www.housatonicriversummer.org (862 words)

	The Register Citizen - Housatonic endangered
		The American Rivers organization says that the length of the river - from Pittsfield, Mass., where tons of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, were dumped at a General Electric Co. plant, to where it meets the Atlantic Ocean in Milford - is threatened by pollution and should be cleaned up by General Electric.
		The first report discusses the effects of the river’s PCBs on human health, the second looks on PCB impacts on fish and wildlife, and the third is a modeling survey where computers will look at whether river flow and weather could cause the contamination to migrate to new areas.
		The group determines which rivers are selected using the following criteria: the magnitude of the threat to the river; a major decision point in the coming year affecting that threat; and the regional and national significance of the river.
	www.registercitizen.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11312789&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=464186&rfi=6 (1140 words)

	Stratford Star
		Similarly, for a time, the Housatonic River was dying as a waterway, poisoned by PCBs upriver and managed carelessly downstream.
		The Housatonic River ecosystem has been nursed back to relative - but fragile - health over roughly the same period of time.
		That bald eagles fly over the river again is a sign of health, a sign of vigor, a sign of the future for both eagles and the river.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1349&dept_id=415622&newsid=10940059&PAG=461&rfi=9 (486 words)

	Housatonic River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It empties into Long Island Sound in a fjord near the town of Stratford.
		Although the water quality has improved in recent decades, the river continues to be contaminated by PCBs.
		Inspired by the river during his honeymoon, the American classical music composer Charles Ives wrote The Housatonic at Stockbridge as part of his composition Three Places in New England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Housatonic_River (216 words)

	Berkshires Week
		Housatonic River Summer is a community effort, initiated by the Sheffield Art League, that has grown to involve over 30 organizations.
		The six-month long program of art, music, river and educational events and community festivals is intended to raise the public's awareness of the Housatonic River as a treasured asset.
		A children's workshop on river ecology and hydrology with sculpture and dance; the dance to be performed at the NRM Festival Day on Aug. 14, at the Flying Cloud Institute in New Marlboro.
	www.berkshiresweek.com /061704?id=article04 (3745 words)

	Housatonic River Initiative
		She is the recipient of an honorary Doctorate from SUNY at Cortland, New York, the 1990 Goldman Environmental Prize, the 1998 Heinz Award, and the 1999 John Gardner Leadership Award from Independent Sector.
		Americans Rivers, a Washington based environmental group, issued a report in April naming the Housatonic River as #7 on its list of America's ten Most Endangered Rivers.
		HRI nominated the river to bring more attention to the upcoming decision by the USEPA to determine whether more of the river should be cleaned of the PCBs that continue to make the river a toxic waterway.
	www.housatonic-river.com (1519 words)

	Suspended-Sediment Characteristics in the Housatonic River Basin, Western Massachusetts and Parts of Eastern New York ...
		Suspended-sediment concentrations, discharges, loads, and yields were determined for eight subbasins in the Housatonic River Basin in western Massachusetts, eastern New York, and northwestern Connecticut from April 1994 through March 1996.
		This large suspended-sediment transport was the result of rainfall and snowmelt on January 19 and 20, 1996--the equivalent of a 5- to 6-inch rain storm in the Green River subbasin.
		Suspended-sediment yields were estimated for two subbasins in the Housatonic River Basin--Schenob Brook at Sheffield, a partial-record sediment station, and the area adjacent to the Housatonic River between Great Barrington and Ashley Falls.
	pubs.usgs.gov /wri/wri004059 (670 words)

	Press Releases 2000 - Trout Unlimited
		Trout Unlimited and its partners in the Housatonic Coalition applauded the water quality certification issued by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for a series of hydroelectric dams on the Housatonic River.
		The decision, which promises to restore the ecological health of the longest remaining riverine reaches of the Housatonic in Connecticut, was hailed by TU as a part of a growing recognition by communities with hydropower facilities that a healthy river increases their own quality of life.
		Together, TU and the Housatonic Coalition, a group of citizens, businesses, and anglers groups formed to fight for natural flows on the Housatonic, launched a public education campaign in an effort to promote the benefits of natural flows.
	www.tu.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=280766&ct=329922 (1158 words)

	Spectrum River Trail to extend north to Young’s Field (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peg Daley, the project director for the Housatonic River Trail, explains that recreational paddling is growing in the region and the trail provides relaxing opportunities for outdoorspeople to paddle on slower moving rivers and lakes.
		A six-mile stretch of the Still River from Danbury to Brookfield is also open, and a take-out ramp near Brookfield’s Four Corners is due to open in the next few months.
		Plans also call for the River Trail to be integrated into the 150-mile Greenway being developed by the Housatonic Valley Association from the source of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts to Long Island Sound.
	www.spectrum.newmilford.com /040502/wilderness.htm (1041 words)

	Outdoor Sports
		The Lower Housatonic River is suprisingly scenic given the intense development in the surrounding area and there are many locations for bicycling.
		Portions of the upper Housatonic River are still contaminated with PCB's from General Electric's days of dumping gook in the river, however there are remediation plans being studdied.
		The Housatonic River Valley, Connecticut's Outdoor Wonderland by Frank McKane Jr.
	borntoexplore.org /river/sports.htm (1920 words)

	Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Housatonic Coalition is comprised of eight angler/conservationist organizations with over 4,000 Connecticut residents who are concerned about the health of the Housatonic River.
		Although the Stevenson, Shepaug and Rocky River projects have caused dramatic, irreparable harm to the river, the Housatonic Coalition's main concerns are with the Falls Village and Bulls Bridge projects.
		Summertime hydropower releases in the past have led to fish kills in the TMA by quickly flooding the river and its coldwater thermal refuges with water that is lethally warm to trout.
	www.activeangler.com /articles/conservation/articles/fff/housatonic.asp (1536 words)

	Berkshire Taconic :: Geography :: Housatonic River
		The Housatonic River begins its 150-mile journey to the ocean in Northern Berkshire County, then meanders through the Berkshires and ultimately ends at the Long Island Sound.
		The Housatonic River played a major role in attracting settlers and early industry to the area.
		Contamination from PCBs, which were dumped in the river by General Electric, still plagues the river, however.
	www.lastgreatplaces.org /berkshire/geography/art6533.html (167 words)

	Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, Inc
		The upper Housatonic Valley is noted for its scenic landscape and traditional New England towns.
		Encompassing 29 communities in the hilly terrain of western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut, the upper Housatonic Valley is considered by many to be the quintessence of a civilized, independent, and thoughtful retreat.
		The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area has been proposed as a means of heightening appreciation of the region, preserving its natural and historic resources, improving the local economy and quality of life, controlling undesirable growth, and promoting the cleanup of the Housatonic River.
	www.upperhousatonicheritage.org (238 words)

	Housy
		The Housatonic River, which flows through Connecticut to Long Island Sound from the Massachusetts border, is seventh on a national conservation group's list of the 10 most endangered rivers in the United States.
		The group, American Rivers, said the Housatonic was included on this year's list because critical decisions are expected to be made in the coming months about cleaning up toxic PCB's downriver from an old General Electric transformer factory in Pittsfield, Mass.
		Timothy W. Gray, executive director of the Housatonic River Initiative, a group concerned with the health of the river, said that with the cleanup of the first mile now complete, it was important that G.E. not try to wash its hands of responsibility for the rest of the river.
	pages.cthome.net /Hammonassettu/housy.htm (727 words)

	The Register Citizen - Leaders speak against pollution
		The Housatonic River is one of our state’s environmental gems and it is a shame that pollution is threatening the living things that call its waters home.
		State Senator Andrew Roraback, whose 30th Senate District runs along the Housatonic River Valley from the Massachusetts border down to Lake Lillinonah in Brookfield has on many occasions utilized the river for recreational purposes.In talking about the PCB contamination Roraback said, "That certainly is a legitimate reason to view this resource as being imperiled.
		HVA is confident that public support for the Housatonic River will continue for as long as necessary to ensure PCB cleanup, especially in river segments like Woods Pond and other stretches where contamination may pose a risk to the ecology and to human health.
	www.registercitizen.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11312792&BRD=1652&PAG=461&dept_id=12530&rfi=6 (598 words)

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