Northeast Gardening: stones, rocks, boulders & erratics, 1 by gardenmart

gardenmart wrote:
OK, my street that is not a street {hereafter referred to as Burnham Ave, as it shows on the map} story gets even stranger. This is the picture I took last night up the street. the far boulder is to the right of the right hand one in my last picture. This, however, was deposited by the hand of man {actually, the hand was running a bulldozer} All three boulders sit atop the channel of a section of the Town of Saugus Phase V Sewer Project. When aforepictured son was only 2, the town connected several of the teensy streets in our area up to the main sewer lines. We sit on top of a hill made of ledge. They had to blast a channel up the street, 9 feet from the house, to get the 5 houses linked up. They moved the two erratics off to one side during the course of the work, because i wanted them. Glad to do it too, since they didn't have to take them away and dump them. Then, they blasted the channel. There were several tons of rock from that, smaller ones that were made into a retaining wall down at the edge of my property and the large table sized one to the right in this picture. When they had laid the pipe, put in the manholes, covered the whole thing up, they put my two stones back more or less where they had been and the third one down from it. Then they put in loam and reseeded the grass that had been the street. My son now mows the street. So 2 from the glacier and one from the pubic works dept. There are a couple of others up and down Burnham Avenue and much of the rock that my son used to build the two tier bed came from this project. I have many beds that have stone borders because that' s what we have a lot of up here even before the project.
Martha