Debate over Charles River Dam's fate was divisive at times. The project was divisive among Natick residents after discussions about repairing or removing the dam were held in 2021.

A dam that has stood on the Charles River since 1934 will be removed after a vote from town leaders in Natick, Massachusetts; if not removed, the dam was in need of major repairs, as a breach of ...

The Charles River Dam and spillway in south Natick over the years has served as a place of beauty and tranquility, attracting visitors from within and outside of town since its creation in 1934.

The Charles began taking a new course in 1634, when entrepreneur Thomas Mayhew erected a small stone dam in Watertown to power a grist mill, making the river one of the first in the country to be ...

Would you swim in the once notoriously "dirty water" of the Charles River? This weekend is your one chance of the year.

M arathoners know that the distance between Hopkinton and Boston is 26.2 miles. The Charles River, however, snakes 80 miles from its source at Hopkinton’s Echo Lake to the locks and dam where it ...

While water levels are a bit low on the Charles River in Wellesley and Natick, the water body is teeming with life. Charles ...

Portion of Charles River looks green from cyanobacterial bloom 00:37. ... The area between the Charles River Dam and the Longfellow Bridge is currently experiencing a harmful cyanobacterial bloom, ...

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has listed part of the Charles River in a harmful cyanobacterial bloom advisory. The area stretches between the Charles River Dam and Longfellow ...