Since 1999 the Conservation Commission has worked with the Northern Rhode Island Conservation District and Providence Water to co-sponsor the Neighbor-to-Neighbor Program.

This program welcomes new property owners to the town and provides them with useful information about the town and issues to consider when you live in a rural  community. It is a kind of "Welcome Wagon" for the town.

The information provided in Neighbor to Neighbor folders allows new residents access to valuable information on septic system operation and maintenance, well water protection, watershed awareness and land-use issues within the Scituate Reservoir Watershed. Often, people moving into rural areas from more urban locales are not familiar with these issues.

From 1999 to 2004 we have sent approximately 1400 Neighbor to Neighbor "welcome' packages to new residents in town. In 2004 we distributed Neighbor-to-Neighbor packets  to approximately 140 residents in town.

In 2004 Glocester and Foster residents began receiving the Neighbor to Neighbor folders as well. The Glocester Conservation Commission and Waste Water Management District, along with the Foster Conservation Commission and Planning Department, have joined us as partners in administering the Neighbor to Neighbor Program.

Copies of these packets are available for review at the Tax Collector's Office at the Town Hall or can be received by calling (401) 647-5526.

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The Scituate Conservation Commission along with RIDEM, USEPA, RIALPC, and the Scituate Land
Trust promote land protection, land conservation, land preservation, natural resource development,
natural resource preservation, natural resource protection, watershed resource protection, watershed
resource preservation, watershed preservation, watershed protection, environmental management,
environmental protection, environmental activism, nature conservancy, protecting nature, woodland
conservation, wilderness preservation, wilderness conservation, and property management.