Peggy, an andover resident recently emailed SRWA: “I was hoping you might remove a tire that is clearly exposed where the river flows between the upper and lower (the oval) soccer fields … by the recently named Sacred Hearts reservation. I live on Arundel Street and walk there all the time and I’m so tired… Continue reading Clean Up at Sacred Heart Reservation: 7/17/2020
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July 12, 2020 Paddle from Knights of Columbus to Ballardvale Dam
It was a beautiful summer afternoon to paddle the Shawsheen in Tewksbury and Andover. SRWA kayakers were led by Marlise and saved by Brian in pebbly areas with water levels as low as 1 inch. We enjoyed a heron, geese, turtles, and flowers.
6/8/2020 A Beautiful Day on the Sudbury River
Follow a swan … Explore new boundaries … Picnic … Paddle … Laurie and Alice
6/26/2020 Collaboration is the Key to a Navigable River
Great collaboration between the Shawsheen Greenway and the Shawsheen River Watershed Association to make the passage in low water at KOC navigable.
6/27/2020 Sheridan St./Lapham Launch Clean-Up
People from many towns along the Shawsheen River came together as a team to clean up the future site of the Lapham Launch off of Sheridan Street in Billerica. What anaccomplishment! Mo
Billerica to Andover 6/13/2020
Led by Marlies Henderson: An SRWA suburban jungle flotilla from Billerica-Wilmington to Andover! 9 boats, 12 socially distant paddlers, 6 mi, 3 hours. Next paddle: 7/11 (next cleanup 6/27)!
SRWA with Marlies Paddles 5/24/2020
SRWA with Marlies Paddles aka Boat Beautiful Billerica traveled the meandering Shawsheen River downstream from Akeson at Putin 5 in Billerica to 2000 Whipple Road at Putin 8 in Tewksbury. Some of us continued to Putin 9 at Knights of Columbus in Tewksbury. Traversing the aqueduct was the absolute highlight of the trip for… Continue reading SRWA with Marlies Paddles 5/24/2020
Wood Stork in Punta Gorda, By Nancy Bailey Miller
Each morning at breakfast you amble up from the beach, an apparition on stilts with grapefruit-pink, three pronged toes, pausing at the patio screen where we now sit eating honeydew melon and toast. Still as a statue, you stare at our strange ways: our dependence on chairs, our serrated spoons, our attention to weather… Continue reading Wood Stork in Punta Gorda, By Nancy Bailey Miller
Paddle from Whipple in Tewksbury: 5/16/2020
The afternoon was good. Interestingly the water level trying to go through the aqueduct was very low making it impossible to paddle against the current. Paddle continued hitting the bottom. Neither of us could go through. Going upstream was great. Where previously we were stopped going downstream, it was easy to go under the branch… Continue reading Paddle from Whipple in Tewksbury: 5/16/2020
Turtles Populate Pomps Pond Andover, 5/15/2020
A steep putin off of Dale street in Ballardvale, paddle about 5 minutes upstream and a short portage to Pomps Pond in Andover. Enjoy a multitude of turtles.