3/16/2021
Volunteers start long-planned revival of Bucklin Brook
Bob Rolke carries two tires from the bank of the Bucklin Brook while Sue Burek, of Attleboro, Mass., collects trash in the background. The two participated in a cleanup of the Bucklin Brook in Pawtucket sponsored by the Friends of the Ten Mile and Bucklin Brook on Sunday morning. (Breeze photos by Robert Emerson)
PAWTUCKET – Back in the early 1940s, the 3-mile Bucklin Brook was mostly buried, cast aside to make way for a new ballpark named McCoy Stadium and other development.
On Sunday morning, a year after the Friends of the Ten Mile adopted Bucklin Brook, a group of about 20 volunteers gathered at the last remaining section of the brook before it runs into the Seekonk River and Narragansett Bay at Bishop’s Bend. They cleaned out tons of garbage from this 200-yard area originally left open.