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...surrounding countryside with everything from asbestos and mercury to enriched uranium. The story is much the same at all the country's now notorious nuclear weapons plants, scattered from Hanford, Wash., to Los Alamos, N. Mex., to the Savannah River plant. The Department of Energy has launched a major clean-up effort, but it might be too late to prevent a host of medical problems in people who have lived in the shadow of the toxic plants for decades...
...problem of more trash on the weekends is a result of the clean-up schedule set by the Department of Public Works, Reeves says. Crews clean on Friday during the day and on Saturday morning, but not late in the afternoon or at night on Saturday. No city crews clean on Sunday. "Saturday night the paper is there and we do nothing on Sunday ... and Sunday is a shopping day," he says...
Public works has a staff fully capable of dealing with the additional weekend clean-up demands without hiring new personnel or greatly increasing spending, according to Reeves...
...building was re-opened to students and faculty at 6:45 p.m., after the clean-up was completed...
...Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 said that he resented that Cambridge citizens are forced to pay for increased water usage in Boston, most of which, he claimed, was going towards the Boston Harbor clean-up. "We have a disappearing act going on of no further money to clean up our sewers," he said...