A polluted brook littered with trash, including tires, cans, plastic bags, and a shopping cart, surrounded by old houses and bare trees under a cloudy sky.
georgenhs Environment, Nature, This Day In Norwood History

Neglect Threatens Traphole Brook-July 7, 1971

On July 7, 1971, environmental advocates warned that government negligence and illegal filling had turned Walpole and Norwood's pristine Traphole Brook into little better than an open sewer.