After a very busy and hot work week, an early morning trash patrol on the lower Assabet River provided just the tonic I needed. Water levels were some of the lowest I've seen. Dodge Rock was standing extra tall as the photo at left attests.
Almost immediately after launching at Lowell Road in Concord and just across from Egg Rock, I came upon an area where one party of shore fishermen had left 30 pieces of trash right at their feet...
A trash barrel is located only 50 feet away. It's hard for me to understand how anyone could be that lazy.
With water levels so low, there is considerably more terra firma than usual, mostly in the form of sand and gravel bars such as the one pictured here...
Mickey Mouse had been lying face down on the bottom of the river until today.
Spencer Brook was barely a trickle. Only turtles and crayfish would be ascending it today...
A little ways above Spencer Brook, the Reformatory Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad used to cross the river on a trestle bridge, the piers of which can be seen jutting above the surface of the water...
This rail line was abandoned in 1925 back when steam powered locomotives ruled the land.
On the way back downriver, this old tree trunk seemed to be saying "On the other hand, perhaps you should head that way..."
The day's catch of 72 pieces of trash posed on the beach under another Reformatory Branch bridge site on the Sudbury River, near Egg Rock...
The breakdown was: 24 recyclable containers (8 redeemable) and 50 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish such as plastic bags, styrofoam bait tubs, old dolls, a Dodge wheel cover, a spray can of laundry starch, and a few nip bottles. YTD total stands at 3503.
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