Word: basin
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Federal and state agencies have spent more than $10 million in the last ten years to clean up the Charles River, but the basin from Boston to Watertown, although much cleaner than it was in the 1960's, will probably remain unfit for swimming indefinitely, a Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) official said yesterday...
...oxygen depletion of a layer of slat water in the river that lies beneath a layer of lighter fresh water. A $700,000 system of six bubblers installed three years ago by the MDC and the Environmental Protection Agency now pumps air into the deepest part of the basin to mix and oxygenate the water, Ferullo said...
...very fancy color camera" that makes "homogeneous observations over an entire ocean basin," Richard M. Goody, Mallinckrodt Professor of Planetary Physics, said this week, adding that by mapping an entire ocean surface at the same time, oceanographers can obtain "data that has never been available...
...16th century ponies of the conquistadors. These are the great nephews and cousins, long inbred, many of them descended from domesticated animals turned loose in the 1930's, when forage was scarce on the Dust Bowl plains. They are being stalked here in Colorado's Piceance Basin and other states because they have been adjudged a peril to the Western range. Since 1971, when free-roaming horses were put under tight federal protection, they have been multiplying with Malthusian consequences, gobbling up valuable sheep and cattle forage and leaving the range threadbare. Complains Colorado Rancher Dean Burke...
...with the program. The BLM spends more than $300 to corral a horse, yet recoups only a fraction of that in adoption fees, which average $80. About 3% of the horses cannot be placed, and federal law requires that these be returned to the range or shot. Few Piceance Basin horses will meet this fate; most of them are strong, healthy and trainable, and will be snatched up fast...