Kettle Brook Clean Up #1
May 13, 2008
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- WA Students
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- Parker-Metals
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- Kettle Brook Reservoir #3
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- Kettle Brook Collage
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- Kettle Brook Res. #1
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- Kettle Brook Res #2
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- Kettle Brook Falls
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- Old Landfill
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- Kettle Brook Res. #4
As part of their school community service obligation, 10 WA students spent a cold Saturday morning earlier this spring pulling the likes of tires, metal scrap, a metal barrel, and a car fender from the Kettle Brook and its banks as the brook flows along the edge of New Balance Fields.
The Kettle Brook is one of the major northern headwaters of the Blackstone River. One of the most fascinating elements of the brook is how it connects four of the city of Worcester’s drinking water reservoirs before flowing into Cherry Valley, the southwest corner of the city, along New Balance Fields, through an industrial corridor on route to the Blackstone. Pristine pictures of the Kettle Brook Reservoirs, above, obscures the impacts of nearby roads, old land fills, agricultural land, and tributary streams running through neighborhoods. (Click on photos for more details).
