• Upstream Border: 2 branches,: a. Boxborough border; b. Inch Brook @ Rte. 111
• Downstream Border: Idylwilde Farm, junction with Fort Pond Brook

Team: Lee Ketelsen, Pam Nourse, Linsey Hurley

Plants: Phragmites, FPGUG

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.