Forest Grove marsh

The Forest Grove marsh is a location in the Commonwealth.

Background
Forest Grove was once a small, scenic town overlooking the Charles River. Now it's a fetid marsh, courtesy of the nonfunctional river lock and the failure of riverside flood walls. The leaking reactor at the lock poisoned the waters, attracting feral ghouls. This combination has driven off all but the most inquisitive or reckless scavengers. The dam however is home to a small scavenger camp, where transients occasionally stop for the night.

Mutated fern plants are known to grow at Forest Grove marsh, and are sought for radiation resisting properties. A small crew recently set up walkways all over the town to cultivate and harvest the ferns for Solomon in Diamond City, but they were all killed when their activities inadvertently attracted ferals.

Layout
All of the buildings of the town have makeshift bridges between them entire to facilitate navigation over the feral infested marsh below. There are few notable buildings, with the exception of a gun store (which contains a weapons workbench upstairs) on the western edge of the flooded area in the northern half of the town. On the roof of this gun store is a small scavenger camp with a steamer trunk.

To the north is the defunct river lock, which has a dry docked boat inside. A small metal shack west of the lock contains an armor workbench. East of the river lock is its operations room, which has a trapdoor in the back, hidden behind some boxes that leads to the reactor level. Further east is another small scavenger camp, which has a cooking station and a few beds.

In the middle of the river is a derelict Lustron house, which apparently wound there up in a mudslide.

Notable loot

 * Sheila's holotape: next to the steamer trunk, on top of the gun store on the west side of town.

Appearances
Forest Grove marsh appears only in Fallout 4.