For decades, more than 2 million Massachusetts residents have been able to count on clean, healthy drinking water from the Quabbin reservoir. The forestland surrounding the Quabbin—set aside years ago thanks to the foresight of the state—filters out pollutants and helps maintain some of the purest drinking water in the country.

But in late 2009 the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation allowed loggers to clear-cut an area surrounding the Quabbin, exposing a major threat to our biggest source of drinking water, and a larger problem: Less than 40 percent of state forests are off-limits to destructive clear-cuts.

With your help, we can protect the Quabbin from logging and other threats, and ensure our drinking water stays clean now and into the future. 

We need to make it clear to the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s commissioner, Richard Sullivan, that a policy that allows clear-cuts and other industrial activity near the Quabbin is unacceptable. Sign our petition to help us persuade Massachusetts’ leaders to enact strong protections for the Quabbin and all of our drinking water sources.