“The Town of Natick is taking climate change very seriously as evidenced by our Net Zero Action Plan,” said Jillian Wilson-Martin, Director of Sustainability for the Town of Natick. “However many climate impacts are here and will get worse, due to the greenhouse gases already accumulated in our atmosphere. Decisions made upstream affect us, just as decisions we make affect our neighbors, and that is why this project is so important because it allows us to work in concert to protect all our communities from the weather extremes of climate change.”'
In addition to funding this critical regional effort, the Baker-Polito Administration also provided funding to many individual municipalities within the Charles River watershed including Ashland, Belmont, Foxborough, Mendon, Millis, Natick, Waltham, Watertown, and Wrentham.