Robert Zimmerman

Charles River Watershed Association

BA, English and History, MA, English, Central Michigan University. Formerly a high school and college teacher, Mr. Zimmerman founded the National Sports Academy at Lake Placid in 1979, where he served as the school's headmaster through 1990. He joined CRWA as Executive Director in January 1991. Under his direction, CRWA has initiated groundbreaking ecosystem analyses and land-planning studies, helped rewrite land and water regulation, developed restorative technologies, and won major battles over the Big Dig Charles River Crossing, Charles River parkland, and water and wastewater impacts. Member: Massachusetts Water Resources Commission, MIT Sea Grant College Program State and Industry Advisory Committee, Earth Share New England Board of Directors and Past President, Earth Share of American Board of Directors, MassDEP Fees and Programs Advisory Committee, Littleton Board of Health.  

CRWA's mission is to use science, advocacy and the law to protect, preserve and enhance the Charles River and its watershed.

One of the country's first watershed organizations, Charles River Watershed Association (CRWA) was formed in 1965 in response to public concern about the declining condition of the Charles. Since its earliest days of advocacy, CRWA has figured prominently in major clean-up and watershed protection efforts, working with government officials and citizen groups from 35 Massachusetts watershed towns from Hopkinton to Boston. Initiatives over the last four decades have dramatically improved the quality of water in the watershed and approaches to water resource management.

From:    http://www.crwa.org