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It was created when the Sudbury Dam was constructed to impound the Stony Brook branch of the Sudbury River; no part of the reservoir lies in the town of Sudbury. Nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) in the Sudbury Reservoir watershed are administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation as a limited-access public recreation area.
Sudbury in 1856. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 24.6 square miles (64 km 2), of which 24.4 square miles (63 km 2) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2), or 1.06%, is water.
The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to 3.1 million people in sixty-one municipalities and more than 5,500 large industrial users in the eastern and central parts of the state, primarily in the Boston area. [2]
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The older of the two carries Massachusetts Route 30 over the open channel below the dam, and was built in 1898. It is a concrete twin-arch bridge, faced in granite. The second bridge, a single-arch span made of similar materials, carries an access road over the open channel to the Weston Aqueduct head house, and was built in 1902–03. [2]
Thanks to SVT advocacy, most of the towns in the Sudbury Valley had established flood plain zones that protected upwards of 6,000 acres (24 km 2) without having to spend dollars to acquire them. SVT was an organization run purely through the efforts of volunteers until Morgan became SVT's first Executive Director in 1981.
Jul. 28—METHUEN — City officials recently announced the start of the transition to the "OpenGov Citizens Services" online permitting portal. On Monday, Aug. 1, the City Clerk, Fire Department ...
Wayland was the first settlement of Sudbury Plantation in 1638. The residents of what is now Sudbury split away in 1722 and formed into the western parish, while residents of what is now Wayland formed into the eastern parish. Prior to the American Revolution Sudbury had one of the largest militias in Massachusetts