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Plants: Phragmites, FPGUG
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Segment One is the short section where Guggins Brook
leaves the woods of the conservation land
and travels through wetlands/marsh to join
Fort Pond Brook just south of Idylwilde Farm.
It is a beautiful, clean section. Marsh
grasses grow along the stream bank and the
dark water is reflects the open sky. Only
a few trees overhang the stream here. The
stream bed appears to be dar, rich mud.
Segment Two is the conservation land through which Inch Brook and Guggins Brook travel, and then join together before Guggins Brook leaves the woods to join Fort Pond Brook. This area is what all streams should look like! Clean-looking streams flowing through woods with no sign of disruption, erosion or contamination. Culverts cross in several places for hiking trails. We saw one problem area: At the Boxborough border there was a pile of fill, a marsh fully filled with phragmites, and a wooded section with an oily sheen. This oily sheen did not break up with a stick. This section abuts housing development in Boxborough.
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