Community Corner
Twenty-seventh Week, Thursday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"The year 1977 may well be regarded as a landmark year for conservation in Medfield. The Conservation Commission and town voters supported Congressional action turning over the wetlands all along the Charles River to the U.S. Government for a Natural Valley Storage as a way to ensure that our major wetlands are never filled in. This area serves as a vast sponge to store water in the spring and in the event of storms, reducing the possibility of flood damage in Boston and saving the Massachusetts taxpayers great expense in not having to build a dam in the lower Charles River area. Agreements worked out guaranteed the town direct control over its recreational use Without protection, the Corps estimated that 40 percent of all existing Medfield wetlands along the Charles River would have been lost to development by 1990."
