The Ram Pasture’s Dirty Denizens

To the Editor:

The pollution of the pond and the brook at Ram Pasture comes from a very obvious source. Our neighbors from the North who, one year, on their way flying south for the winter to escape the cold Arctic weather in their native Canada, came upon a beautiful pond in a friendly town with people who were delighted to see them and feed them bread and popcorn and other tasty tidbits. They decided to skip the long flight to the far south and spend the winter here.

By the time springtime arrived, they knew they had found a special place, and they decided to stay. Unfortunately, the friendly people of Newtown began to slip and slide on the grass in the pasture, where these Canada geese, prolific producers of copious amounts of “fertilizer” were beginning to multiply and so was the fertilizer. Even as the geese charmingly paddle about in the pond, they are at the same time, defecating in the water. This is where the water pollution is coming from. Not from the grass clippings that fall into it when the pasture is mowed.

Rita Willie

51 Butterfield Road, Newtown                             November 24, 2008