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Adriane Fowler • Program	Two other interventions are proposed to follow, and will be developed further: 2 The gatehouses and Stony Brook conduit outfall become a sediment garden. The waterway at the end of the conduit is currently the site of a deposition sandbar from street sand washed down in storm events. Assuming that maintenance of the catch basins in the larger system may not prevent all sedimentation at this site, a thoughtfully designed weir is installed here capture sediments. Deposition eventually forms an island which attracts ducks and other waterfowl to the shallows beside the dredged channel. Periodically, sediment removed from the weir is added to the beach across the channel, forming an open place for park users (such as duck-feeding children) to access the water's edge. 3 The Phragmites stand along the edge of the victory gardens is inhabited in a new way as victory wetlands are cleared in selected locations among the beds of 20' tall reeds. Community gardeners are encouraged to make these spaces their own, either collectively as gathering places or individually as water garden plots. In form, these spaces could be carved out to access views of the Boylston and Agassiz Bridges and to demarcate some of OlmstedÌs original "lobes" which reached out into the water where the Phragmites now stands. In addition, the remaining historic Phragmites beds can be farmed and harvested periodically, and sold for thatch and other uses.

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