An estuary is an area where a river meets and mixes with the sea, and is influenced by changing tides, temperatures and salinity. To Bernadette Taber and her colleagues at Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program (BBNEP), it’s more simply defined as the battleground on which her agency succeeds or fails. And it hasn’t failed yet.Taber, stormwater specialist, has overseen the distribution of grants to help area communities with a variety of water quality programs since 1985. On “extended loan” from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, she is one of five specialists who make up the program. “It’s a tight
