• Upstream Border: Cowdrey Lane
• Downstream Border: Nagog Hill Road, between Greenwood Lane and Hammond Street

Team: Bob Johnson and Betsy Comstock

Dams, beavers: Beaver activity on Conant Brook, NBCON1

Going upstream from Nagog Hill Road, Conant Brook is a small and swiftly moving stream for about 150' where the lower beaver dam is located. The pond above this dam appears to be shallow and not canoeable. The upper beaver dam is about half way between Nagog Hill and Newtown Roads. It is accessible from Newtown Road, where you can canoe downstream to the dam and upstream to the point of closest approach at Cowdrey Lane, picking your way with difficulty through a dying forest. There is lots of vegetation, including a rotting bottom. The banks are either forested conservation land or residential backyards. No problems were noted.

• Lots of litter near Newtown Road.
• Beaver ponds had rotting bottoms, lots of duckweed, dying and fallen trees, and a stagnant, sometimes scummy surface.