Environmental Nightmare: Black Lagoon Tributary

The Black Lagoon off Maple Street in Marlborough, Mass. (photo below) has spread contaminated silt to the Sudbury Reservoir (photo above). A half-mile-long tributary stream links The Black Lagoon to the reservoir (photo bottom)./Google Earth images

The Black Lagoon is filled with soiled silt from toxic waste sites along Maple Street, which is the scene of more than a century of petroleum-product spills, according to Massachusetts officials.

For at least three decades, The Black Lagoon has fed a steady diet of toxic waste to its tributary stream of the Sudbury Reservoir. 

The Black Lagoon is in the rotted heart of this April 1996 map. /Middlesex News image