Boston Globe 1/8/12: Environmental officials await public response to far-reaching Nyanza plan. State and federal officials have developed a $3.7 million plan that would restore the pollution-damaged watershed along the Sudbury River containing one of the nation’s first Superfund sites.

Years in the making, the plan outlines restoration of the area around what was once the site of Nyanza Color and Chemical Co. in Ashland, a 35-acre parcel that still bears a legacy of mercury contamination and other environmental woes.

The impact of the state and federal plan – its creation overseen by multiple agencies at both levels of government – would extend far beyond Ashland to a number of area communities, including Framingham, Southborough, Wayland, Westborough, and parts of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Sudbury.

The plan is up for public comment through a period that ends January 23.