Itinerary

Springwater Fieldtrip R

Dallas Abbott and Bill Menke, December 26-27, 2018

December 26, 2018

(Bill Menke, only)

10:15 AM, Leave Auburn Maine.

10:30 AM, Park at the Hiker’s Kiosk at Androscoggin Riverlands State Park, on the north side of Conant Road, Turner Maine, just east of a stream crossing. View the wetland around the stream. Hike the park raod about a half-mile north, and then bushwhack east to a small bay on the Androscoggin River. Follow the shore of the bay south, and then a small stream west to its headwaters at a small seep. The temperature was just above freezing, indicating a very shallow source.

12:00 Noon, Return Auburn Maine.

(Dallas Abbott and Bill Menke)

1:00 PM, Leave Auburn Maine.

1:30 PM, Thorncrag Bird Sanctuary, Highland Spring Road, off of Montello St. in Lewiston, Maine.

1:35 PM, Spring 1 (Site 109), Highland Spring, just beyond the north end of the parking lot. This park is on a substantial wooded hill that is full of springs. A small concrete spring house completely submerged in a small pit. Its outflow follows a trench into a small rivulet, west of the spring. The foundation of a larger Spring House is nearby.

1:45 PM, We follow the rivulet by the Highland Spring north to its source, a small presumably spring-fed pond on the hillside. Metamorphic rock is exposed on occasional outcrops in this park. We then walked a loop through the sanctuary, viewing: (1) some springs that were on the south side of a wetland near the Farmstead Foundation: (2) another pond; (3) The large Anthony Fireplace; (4) the much smaller Miller Fireplace; and (5) the Mount Washington View. We could indeed make out Mount Washington in the distance.

3:45 PM, We drove to Pettingill Park, Auburn Maine, and parked at a lot off of Pettigill Park Road by the baseball diamond. We walked a hundred yards south into the head of a valley that has steep alluvium bluffs on all but its north side, following a stream that originated at a spring on the east side of the valley.

3:50 PM, Spring 2 (Site 110), Pettingill Park Spring, on the east side of the valley south of the baseball diamond.

4 PM, Arrive Auburn, Maine.

December 26, 2018

10:40 AM, Leave Auburn Maine

10:45 AM, We searched in the woods at the end of Hazel Street, Auburn Maine, for the Hazel Street Spring. We fould a concrete trough, and farther up the hillside, some loose pieces of PVC pipes by an ice-covered seep, but nothing that looked like a spring. Afterward, we met Christopher Houlares, a local resident, who told us the spring had been on the north side of Hazel St. near its intersection with Western Highway (and not in the woods at the end of the street), but had been removed by the state for public health reasons.

11:15 AM, Return Auburn Maine