Enjoyed a short paddle on the Shawsheen River with a flow of 100 cfs. Surprised to see a muskrat swimming. Click on IMG_2350 and look closely. A tree is down about 5 minutes upstream from the put-in. We were able to paddle through it but in higher or faster water this [ Read More ]
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AFT Thanks to this crew this part of the river is navigatable. Michael Dempsey’s Shawsheen River crew: “This is our hobby: Weekly work parties to improve navigation” – before and after 🙂 BEFORE I paddled yesterday and came across this tree which had fallen totally across the river in about [ Read More ]
Great collaboration between the Shawsheen Greenway and the Shawsheen River Watershed Association to make the passage in low water at KOC navigable.
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 [ Read More ]
Beautiful paddling day! Laurie, Alice, and Barbara put in at Knights of Columbus, Tewksbury and paddled upstream through the inundated marsh aiming for the Whipple launch. Fast moving water, high water, beautiful skies, budding maples, joyful meandering. At a downed tree near Whipple, we came back downstream past the KOC [ Read More ]
Alice and Barbara had a delightful paddle from the Horn Bridge yesterday. There’s one obstruction closer to Dale St but we were able to get through it by bending as much as possible in our kayaks. If the river had been 2 inches higher, we couldn’t have gotten through. Next [ Read More ]
Blue skies beckon our boat, but … Today’s Tewksbury paddle proved 🔺hazardous 🔺due to high water. Do not try this: Dropped off canoe at KOC, spotted the car downstream at River Pines, Andover. Drove back to KOC to start paddling. Some truly 🔺hairy sections near Mill St bridge; we portaged [ Read More ]
Led by Marlies, 7 enthusiastic paddlers braved the gray skies and paddled the Shawsheen River from Grace Drive in Wilmington to Ballardvale in Andover. Thanks to the many volunteers who removed parts of fallen trees from blocking the river over the past few years, this was the first time [ Read More ]
A successful day on the Shawsheen, SRWA and two members of the Shawsheen River Greenway collaborated to open a section of the River in Tewksbury.
A small but extremely hardy crew, Maria, Laurie, and Kyle braved the elements to for a clean-up of the Shawsheen River beginning a Whipple Road in Tewksbury and heading towards Andover on Saturday, May 4, 2019.