Restoring the Coonamessett River: Results of Phase 1

The Town of Falmouth, MA is restoring the Coonamessett River. Hundreds of years of industrialization for mills and cranberry farming severely impacted the wetland habitat and the historic herring run. Restoring the river to a more natural state has already had a huge positive impact.

[@PacoOtis]

Bravo! The world needs more people like you! The best of luck to you and your friends!

[@markjones7109]

Fantastic effort.

[@texgowing7359]

You guys & ladies are heroes, you're angels on earth. Keep doing what you're doing, you are winning🤗🤗🤗🤗🙏🙏👍💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@phph1731]

Wonderful to see this recovery of a river and its margins. It can be done! Well done and keep going.

[@felipericketts]

Yay! What a success. Thanks for sharing and restoring :-)

[@reeffella]

You have a lot to be proud of with this amazing project!

[@tonquinb]

grew up in Bridgewater Mass...summers on the cape...Parents have a house in Falmouth...THRILLED to see this happening...thank you

[@peterfederico1484]

amazing work! thank you for your ongoing efforts to restore Earth.

[@paulmontague8664]

Thank you all for your hard work! What a great project.

[@garyhayward324]

well done from australia

[@andrewparry1474]

I'll second that!

[@nevnuance3480]

Great story, great work.

[@julianmarsano8212]

Such wonderful work! Bravo Zulu!

[@nickauclair1477]

I love this.

[@firsttankcrews]

Congratulations for all you have achieved, from Andover in (old) Hampshire

[@CyberSQUID9000]

This is very cool

[@terenceconnors9627]

Excellent! When are you adding beavers?

[@robertcalamusso4218]

How cool is that !
Sand - big problem in N UP.

[@jnolette1030]

This is cool. Give it 10 years and it will be back to 1620!

[@mlindsay527]

Are beavers a part of this restoration?

[@alisonandscott9315]

There are no beavers on Cape Cod, so no.

[@robertcalamusso4218]

Wisconsin

[@johneaston197]

Just curious, why is this called a river? It doesn't look like much more than a small stream.

[@lazaruslazuli6130]

good job. But... that's a creek, not a river.

[@martymelchior620]

All creeks are rivers. Not all rivers are creeks.

[@PageMarker1]

@@martymelchior620 I think you missed his point, it used to be a river of considerably more width and depth judging by the sides where the trees are, and it doesn't seem likely that this creek would have been much use for what it had been when it was exploited for fish.

[@fixento]

It's a creek, not a river. A A river is a LARGE, natural stream of flowing water