Malden River

The Mystic River Watershed Association is working and creating educational programs to help the environment.

The Association works on projects to improve the Mystic River and tributaries, lakes and ponds and greenways along the waterfronts.

Also, a state-of-the-art boat house is located in Medford on the west bank of the river, used by the Tufts University rowing team.

It then flows southward for about 2 miles (3.2 km), forming the border between Medford and Everett before emptying into the Mystic River.

The construction of the Amelia Earhart Dam in 1966 has converted it to freshwater and maintained a fairly constant depth.

In 2024 the Environmental Protection Agency plans to begin a Clean Water Act, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System to address stormwater runoff to help meet the water quality goals of the Mystic River Watershed.

Nothing more than metal barriers lowered by turning a knob, these prevent water from flooding the underground streams in Malden.

[citation needed] This canal is a gathering spot for spawning alewife and the stripers that follow them.

Along the river are blue jays, sparrows, swallows, robins, cardinals, crows, mourning doves, pigeons, red-winged blackbirds, eagles, turkey vultures, brants, hawks, grackles, catbirds and woodpeckers.

In the water double-crested cormorants, Canada geese, swans, ducks, sea gulls, great blue herons and hooded mergansers can be spotted.

Despite their poor reputation as a dirty bottom feeder, they are an excellent sportfish to those who can throw away any preconceived notions about them.

One brook called Shilly Shally is west of Washington Street in Melrose and only flows during the spring.

It cascades from the Middlesex Fells Reservation in an amazing waterfall only be channeled underground to Spot and Ell Pond Brook.

Further up, at Spot and Ell Pond Brook (near the current Oak Grove MBTA station), there is a tributary that is mostly underground, but appears in Pine Banks Park and Forest Dale Cemetery.

Alongside the commuter rail tracks to Wyoming Hill Station in Melrose, the brook is above ground.

A small section of Spot Pond Brook is above ground in Stoneham, north of Wyoming Avenue.

MassDOT expects to replace this bridge, which has a 10-ton weight limit, with a fixed span beginning in summer 2014.