Welcome to Acton's Stream Team


Survey
NBWL1, Wills Hole Brook
  • Upstream Border: Rte. 27, Rte. 2A
  • Downstream Border: Rte. 2A, west of Wyndcliff Dr., bridge @ Great Rd. Apt.

Team: Susan Mitchell-Hardt, Vina Hyde, Liz Lenzen, Kathy Button


Trash: Bicycle in Wills Hole Brook, NBWL1

 
This segment extends from the bridge at the Great Road Apartments and ends on Rte. 2A by Wyndcliffe Drive, and is approximately 2400' long. It is basically a lovely stream---clear, odorless, shaded and quite natural. It is occasionally marred by litter and trash—2 tires, bicycle, bubble wrap, hubcap, fencing material. The stream was fairly easy to follow until we got to the segment behind Acton Wood's Plaza—then it's very overgrown and blocked with trees and prickers. Immediately behind the plaza is the plastic siltation barrier and sand and silt.

Along the stream is much skunk cabbage. The terminus section at Rte. 2A and Wyndcliffe Drive is characterized by the stream's meandering through marsh grass and is very different from the rest of our segment.

Sheens on the water: Stagnant rust colored water with oily sheen, Wills Hole Brook, along Rte. 2A, NBWL1