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TRWA Blog

  • Thank you to our Festival Sponsors! - The TRWA Taunton River Festival at the Weir Village Riverfront Park on June 8th would not be at all possible without the generous support of our local Sponsors! Their support allows us to celebrate the Taunton Wild & Scenic River with the  community during National Rivers month. We are excited... Continue reading
  • Become a “Friend of the Festival” -   Become a “Friend of the Festival”. Help make this year’s Taunton River Festival the best ever! Become a “Friend of the Festival” with a donation of $100. In honor of the Taunton Wild & Scenic River, the TRWA hosts the Taunton River Festival each June during National Rivers Month.... Continue reading
  • Training for Water Quality Monitoring Volunteers 3/29th -     Help protect the water quality of the Taunton River and its tributaries by becoming a Water Quality Monitoring Volunteer! No technical training or education is required just a desire to be part of an important effort with good people who want to improve local water quality. We provide... Continue reading
Watershed News

Watershed News

  • May TRWA Water Quality Monitoring Data Available - The water quality monitoring results for May are available. Click the link here or visit our Monitoring Tab at the top of the TRWA home page and click on either the sample bottles picture or the link further down the page under Documents.   In May, as show on the... Continue reading
  • April 2025 TRWA Water Quality Monitoring Results Available - The TRWA water quality monitoring results for April are available. The results may be found on our website here and at the Water Quality Monitoring Tab by clicking on the sample bottles picture or the link further down the page under Documents.   As evident in the nightly news, global... Continue reading

Upcoming Events

 

March

3/7th, 10am- Guided Walk: Picone Farm/Oliver House with Ellenor Simmons

3/12th, 11am- Guided Walk: Bioreserve with Ellenor Simmons

3/17th,  7:30pm- The Big Night with Brian Bastarache

3/29th, 9:30am- Volunteer Training for Water Quality Monitoring with Steve Silva

3/31, 6pm- Snakes of Massachusetts with Brian Bastarache

April

4/11, 10:30am – High Street Dam Restoration Tour with Chris Hirsch & Taylor DelVecchio

4/22nd, 1pm- Guided Walk: Quequechan River Rail Trail with Ellenor Simmons

4/27, 12:30pm- Cleanup, Dighton Rock State Park with DCR & Friends of Dighton Rock

May

5/3rd, 10am- Learn to Fish (all ages), Lake Rico with MassWildlife

5/14th, 9:30am- Guided Walk: Bird Street Conservation Area with Ellenor Simmons

5/31st, 9am- Guided Spring Paddle, Nemasket River with John Littlefield

June

6/8th, 11am- Taunton River Festival at Weir Village Riverfront Park, Taunton

6/28th, 10am- Guided Summer Paddle & Lunch, Taunton River with John Littlefield

October

10/18th, 9am- Guided Fall Paddle, Taunton River with John Littlefield

November

11/1st- 4pm- Annual Meeting

 

Programming is made possible by the generosity of our members, individual donors, the Bruce Spooner Family and

 

See our events calendar for more events

Tides in Fall River:

To get the time of HIGH tide in Taunton add approximately 45 minutes to the high tide times listed below. For the time of LOW tide in Taunton add 2 hours and 15 minutes to the time of low tide listed below.

Water Height at the Titicut St gauge in Bridgewater:

USGS Water-data graph for Taunton River
Our Mission...to protect and restore the watershed’s natural resources for current and future generations.