Vast Array of Trash Removed from Mother Brook During Cleanup

Dedham’s Mother Brook Community Group and several volunteers spent a portion of the weekend cleaning trash out of the water of the Mother Brook.

The Mother Brook’s water levels were lowered over the weekend to allow town officials a chance to inspect and repair the Colburn Street Dam.

As a result, the Mother Brook Community Group issued a call for assistance to clean up the community treasure, which flows through East Dedham’s Condon Park.

The array of items found in the Mother Brook during the cleanup is quite stunning.

Typewriters, shopping carts, washing machines and bicycles were among the garbage pulled from the water, Mother Brook Community Group member Dan Hart told the Dedham Transcript.

The town of Dedham, though a Department of Environmental Protection grant, will install several filters this fall in an effort to prevent further pollution to the brook.