SAVE THE CORE - WE NEED YOUR HELP!

  • The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) geologic sample and core repository must be permanently moved from its current location in Building 4 at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts to allow for resale and reassignment of that space.
  • The collection must be moved immediately from this location and we need your help in finding a new home for this very important and valuable collection.

  • The collection consists of 70,000 linear feet of rock core, 525 thin sections, various rock samples, photographs and records collected over an 80-year period during the planning and design of public water and sewer related construction projects in Massachusetts.


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  • The collection provides an unparalleled record of earth history in Massachusetts that has served as an important primary earth science information source for a wide variety of individual citizen, academic, private sector, and government agency inquiries and issues.


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  • The collection has provided and will continue to provide health, safety, societal, economic, educational and scientific benefits to the public.


  • A core repository advisory committee has been formed to assist the MWRA in relocating the collection.
For more information on the value of the collection, and the reasons why it must be maintained, you can download the Executive Summary and the accompanying Position Paper (in PDF format) of the advisory committee. You may also contact Steve Mabee, the State Geologist, at sbmabee@geo.umass.edu, or (413)545-4814



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