Sustainable Dedham

Congratulations and thank you to the hard working folks at Town Hall whose work earned this! The Town of Dedham is thrilled to announce it has received a one-year $93,750 Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Action Grant to develop short and long-term flood resilience strategies for the Manor Neighborhood. In addition, the Town of Dedham took the lead on preparing and submitting a separate application for grant funding on behalf of the Neponset Stormwater Partnership which includes Boston, Canton, Dedham, Foxborough, Milton, Norwood, Sharon, Stoughton, and Westwood. The partnership was awarded a two-year MVP grant in the amount of $608,134 to research and address flooding at a regional level.

Dedham Awarded Funds for Two Grants from State | News | Town of Dedham Town of Dedham News and Updates

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Brooklyn scientist tries out ‘rock dust’ to grow better garden and fight carbon pollution An urban garden specialist is conducting a low-tech and audacious experiment with kale, collards and some basalt rocks in East New York.

A VERY HELPFUL DROUGHT INFORMATION RESOURCE:

From the U.S. Drought Monitor (https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/About/WhatistheUSDM.aspx): The Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: moderate (D1), severe (D2), extreme (D3) and exceptional (D4).

The Drought Monitor has been a team effort since its inception in 1999, produced jointly by the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). droughtmonitor.unl.edu.

Navigate here for the current drought conditions in Massachusetts:
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?MA