Southeastern students to design rain garden

Norfolk Ram's partnership with the students of Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School was featured in a recent Stoughton Journal.  We are pleased to provide pro bono support for the school's upcoming sustainability projects, and we applaud the students who have been considering plans to build an on-campus rain garden to purify water run-off that flows into the surrounding habitat.  We are excited to begin work on this project, after which we plan to conduct further meetings with the school's environmental program students to consider other sustainability programs for the Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School campus.  For more information about our involvement with SRVTHS, please visit here.

Newton MA Stormwater Management Fee

In 2008 the Town of Cohasset, MA  adopted a Stormwater Bylaw.  Norfolk Ram Group, LLC (Norfolk) serves as Stormwater Agent for the Town of Cohasset under the direction of the Conservation Commission (the local board which administers the Stormwater Bylaw).  As Stormwater Agent, Norfolk has had several discussions with the Town Manager and Conservation Commission about ways and mechanisms to help the Town to pay for on-going and necessary stormwater improvement projects.  Some Town stormwater projects have been for improving water quality in coastal and water supply watersheds, and some for control of significant flooding in low lying areas, and some projects address both water quality and flooding.  Paying for maintenance of these systems is also an on-going issue.  The approach adopted in the City of Newton, MA (within the Charles River Watershed) seems to be working, and this is an approach that Cohasset may want to consider.  See the attached article on the Newton Stormwater Fee.