Sunday, November 23, 2014

Another Day on the Assabet

Arriving at the Egg Rock inscription this morning, the water level was noted to be more than adequate for ascending the Assabet River.  The past week has seen temperatures more typical of winter around here and left me uncertain as to how much ice might be encountered.
Temperatures were near 40 degrees with the promise of upper 50s if the sun put in a solid performance (which thankfully it did).

Today marked the first occasion this season where a piece of trash was freed from the icy grip of Old Man Winter...

Thanks to Dunkin' Donuts the next piece of trash was wearing a winter jacket of sorts...
...still can't fathom how they justify providing Styrofoam insulators for iced coffee containers.

The Leaning Hemlocks provided a little greenery...

Near Dove Rock an old boathouse has been reborn...

Further upriver sounds of construction brought me a short ways into Nashoba Brook to investigate.  Quite a large building has risen just beyond the abandoned Old Colony railroad bridge...
The flow from Nashoba Brook (which includes Fort Pond Brook) was contributing a significant amount of water to the Assabet. 
At the confluence of the brook and river hung this hat full of luck...
Unfortunately it wasn't my size.

At the MBTA commuter rail bridge work continues on elevating one track at a time...

To proceed above the Pine Street bridge would have required some good work to overcome the swift and shallow current...

  ...so it became my turnaround point.

The day's trash haul surprised even me...
There were 42 recyclable containers (16 redeemable) and 36 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish such as plastic bags, nip bottles, and Styrofoam.  YTD = 5594

The portion that an expanded Bottle Bill might have addressed...

I'm still waiting for the newfangled more up to date system the American Beverage Association and Stop and Shop et all are going to put forth to remedy this, since they claim our Bottle Bill is outdated.  Something tells me that our old, time tested Bottle Bill has every right to sing "U Can't Touch This".

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