Sudbury River-Little Farms Rd. to Power Lines & Back

This afternoon the busy wind of the last 3 days finally stopped for a breather and afforded me a chance to trash patrol a section of the Sudbury River I hadn't paddled for a while. I had the nice launch site at Little Farms Road all to myself and soon my kayak and I were gliding towards the arching aquaduct that transports drinking water from Wachusett Reservoir to the greater Boston area. The pipe is approximately four feet in diameter...

Trash started tp pick up soon after I passed under Stone Bridge Road and my count was up to 24 by the time I reached the old four arch stone bridge. This bridge is no longer connected to anything on its western end...

This is the location where in January of 1776 General Knox hauled the cannons he was bringing from Fort Ticonderoga across the river on an even earlier bridge. Those cannons were used to persuade the British to leave Boston Harbor.
The stretch downstream of the old stone structure had numerous wood ducks and red-winged blackbirds. Also very numerous was trash, slowing my progress considerably. Twice in just a little over a mile, I stopped to transload from a crowded deck to my ship's hold. I turned around at the spot where several power lines cross the river and had more than 80 pieces of trash stowed below deck.
Returning upriver I recovered an additional batch which still adorned my deck when I landed back at Little Farms Road...

And finally, the bounty that spilled forth after my kayak disgorged its contents...

My trash count for this patrol was 114 of which 72 were recyclable and of those 72 only a meager 17 were redeemable. YTD total stands at 496.