No Dumping?
Published by Chris Wangler - August 5, 2020.
After shutting down Connors Pool due to COVID-19 contact, the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) promised to thoroughly clean the pool.
Should they clean the grounds too?
A quick walk around the pool reveals a shocking amount of trash along otherwise pristine Charles River conservation land.
On Newton Street, just south of the pool, a makeshift tent stands on an elevated concrete pad. It’s surrounded by trash and beer bottles, some filled with a yellow liquid.
Nearby there is clothing and trash right up against the pool building.
Around the corner on River Street, there is a small DCR parking lot for pool guests.
“No Dumping” signs are posted, but beer bottles and cans and other trash litter the edge of the lot and a chain link fence.
Beyond the fence, down a bank leading to the river, there are bottles everywhere, including in the river.
