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THE NEPONSET AND THE MYSTIC. ^ 



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Brooks Compares the Conditions j, 

 in the Two Rivers. 



To the Editor of the Milton Record, 



I have read with much interest Mr. 

 Raekemann's letter and Mr. Wolcott's 

 reply concerning the cleaning of the 

 Neponset River. 



I wish to say that I lived for 40 'years 

 near the Lower Mystic Pond, into which 

 the Woburn tanneries emptied, and 

 the smell was quite as bad as the 

 smell from the Neponset. 



The refuse was carried off in a sewer 

 (going through our land near the pond) 

 and in a very short time the pond and 

 river were clean, but the Mystic River 

 is a tidal one, and has not been dammed 

 till a year ago, as it could clean itself. 



Now the Neponset, as Mr. Rackemann 

 admits, has dams ,,(and has had them 

 for years) below Hyde Park, and as 

 they have not been removed, even in 

 the flood times of the year, the solid 

 matter could not be carried down to 

 the sea, (as in the case of the Mystic) 

 and has all settled. 



It seems to me, therefore, that some- 

 thing more than building a sewer must 

 be done to the Neponset, unless all 

 the dams are taken down and not al- 

 lowed to be put back. 



The Mystic is as winding as the Ne- 

 ponset, though much shorter. 



Miss Fanny Brooks. 

 Monday, June 19, 1911. 



Brush Hill Road, Milton. 



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