River Restore

The banks of Little River served as an outdoor classroom for Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program participants and other volunteers.

In Summer 2021, we kicked off a long term project to restore the riverbank between the Alewife Stormwater Wetland and the Little River. Partnering with Parterre Ecological to provide expertise in the field and working in collaboration with Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Cambridge Conservation Commission, we're creating new native habitat by removing invasives and planting native shrubs and trees, an effort that Restore Corps will build off of.

Initiated in 2015 by the Friends of Alewife Reservation, this 28,000 square foot site prone to flooding and burdened by pollution is undergoing mitigation via biodiversity plantings that build on the native plantings of the Stormwater Wetland area.