Great collaboration between the Shawsheen Greenway and the Shawsheen River Watershed Association to make the passage in low water at KOC navigable.
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
Save the date! Pending the further lifting of covid-19 state of emergency restrictions, the SRWA plans to paddle the Shawsheen River two hours downstream. Each month a different section. Next: Start at Knights of Columbus, 2068 Main Street, Tewksbury to Andover – BYOBoat, park the cars at Balardvale Dam and [ Read More ]
Sheridan St Clean Up in Billerica on the banks of the Shawsheen River. Challenge: What is it? Who can retrieve it? This is a land cleanup. Do not bring kayaks or canoes. If you can, bring rubber boots, wear long sleeves, loppers, and wear a mask. Join SRWA & Beautify [ Read More ]
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)!
Save the date! Pending the further lifting of covid-19 state of emergency restrictions, the SRWA plans to paddle the Shawsheen River two hours downstream for up to 10 boats; from Wilmington into Andover – BYOBoat, park the cars downstream at River Pines Conservation Land and shuttle back to the starting [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
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 ]
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.