Resilient Neponset Climate Collaborative

Working together, we aim to help our communities improve their resilience to a changing climate.

Significant changes are necessary to ensure that individuals and communities can recover from the impact of extreme storms that knock out power, flooding that impedes travel, or heat waves that worsen many health conditions.

No one community can do all of these things alone, however. And since climate impacts don’t respect municipal boundaries, it makes sense to collaborate with neighboring cities and towns to more effectively, efficiently, and equitably reduce the risks to public health and safety throughout the region. 

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For any questions, please email NepRWA Managing Director for Community Resilience Kerry Malloy Snyder.

This project is supported by a Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness (MVP) Program Action Grant awarded to the Town of Canton, in partnership with the City of Boston, Boston Water & Sewer Commission, and the Towns of Dedham, Foxborough, Medfield, Milton, Norwood, Sharon, Stoughton, and Westwood. Project support from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Neponset River Watershed Association, and Weston and Sampson Engineering.

Project Details

During Phase 3 of the Resilient Neponset project, the Project Team developed a toolkit to address a top priority identified by the Climate Collaborative–updating municipal policies, including bylaws and regulations, to ensure climate-resilient growth to protect the environment, people, and property.

Preview the Toolkit here.

During Phase 1 of the Neponset River Watershed Climate Adaptation project, municipal representatives worked with the Project Team to identify shared climate adaptation priorities across all Neponset communities.

The result was a Framework intended to guide future collaborative efforts to build regional climate resilience.

Neponset Region communities worked together to identify shared climate adaptation priorities. They then outline a plan to guide cooperative advancement of those priorities within the Resilient Neponset Climate Collaborative Workplan.

Click here to review the work plan.

Municipal representatives on the Resilient Neponset Climate Collaborative Steering Committee are developing a work plan to identify climate adaptation projects for the near, mid, and long term across the Watershed.

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NepRWA and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) facilitate workshops to support the advancement and implementation of the Resilient Neponset Climate Collaborative’s priorities.

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On June 16, 2025, the Project Team hosted a Virtual Public Meeting. Participants heard about the work of the Resilient Neponset Climate Collaborative, the Community Advisory Group, and the new updates to the Neponset Region Flood Model.

Miss it? Check out the slides and video below:

Click here for presentation slides.