Concord River - Lowell Rd. to Davis Hill

This morning, despite gray skies, a nice paddle was to be had on the Concord River between early morning and early afternoon showers.  At the Lowell Road launch site, some recent grading work has been done which greatly improves vehicle access.  After launching, the current soon carried me under the Old North Bridge and I approached Flint's Bridge (Monument St.) pictured at left.  Note the white object seen through the far right portal.  This turned out to be a "party bag" that someone had tossed and it ended up floating in the river...

The bag was open yet still contained 20 empty beer cans.  Just downstream were 2 additional cans from the same party.  Hard to imagine someone being that clueless in our present day and age!

The river realm was all mine today.  No other boaters, fishermen, or duck hunters were seen.

At Saw Mill Brook I paddled upstream to this old structure where water from Punkatasset Hill was being guided to the river...

 
At Davis Hill, the river straightens out for the run towards Route 225.  Fog was hanging tough...

This became my turnaround point and I began heading back upriver.

At Mill Brook I noticed the beaver dam was gone and therefore paddling up the brook to near Concord Lumber was possible....

 
Once back at Lowell Road, the day's haul of trash disembarked...

There were 45 pieces of trash including 37 recyclable containers (25 redeemable) and 8 pieces of miscellaneous rubbish such as styrofoam, a plastic bag, a fishing rod, and an errant floating boom.
YTD total = 5707.