To the Editor:
Love the publication of this article [“Where Does the Water Go?”, BCF Newsletter, September/October 2025], but there is an important correction to make:
“It briefly enters Clay Pit Pond, then exits via a culvert beneath Concord Avenue, flowing into Wellington Brook.” should read:
“It briefly enters Clay Pit Pond, then exits via a culvert beneath Brighton Street, flowing into Wellington Brook.”
Basically Wellington Brook flows from the library to a culvert under Concord Avenue, and then into Clay Pit Pond. Water flows out of Clay Pit Pond into a culvert under Brighton Street into another part of Wellington Brook, which then flows in and out of Blair Pond. So the article misidentifies the entrance as the exit, getting the direction of flow wrong. The next sentence has the direction and water bodies correct. It’s confusing that Wellington Brook was engineered to flow into and out of both Clay Pit Pond and Blair Pond, so has multiple short segments, some of which are culverted.
Anne-Marie Lambert
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