What other areas are protected?

In addition to BVW's and floodplains, the Act also covers banks, dunes, beaches, vernal pools, land under lakes and ponds, and land under or within 200 feet of rivers and streams which flow year round.  Many wetland resource areas are defined by the abundance of wetland plants and by their water regime or hydrology, with the latter sometimes determined by soil type.  Riverfront resource areas are in most cases measured from the top of the bank of a river or stream.  

Some of the information provided was taken from the MACC pamphlet "The Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act"