Word: dpw
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Public authorities two weeks ago asserted that the stench would be gone in time for the Head. At that time, Leanne DelVecchio, a representative for the Metropolitan District Commission, speculated that the smell had been caused by a sewer cleaning effort by the Cambridge Department of Public Works (DPW...
DelVecchio said that the pipe that enters the Charles next to the Anderson Bridge is controlled by the DPW and is used in cases in which the sewer system overflows from excess rainwater or system problems...
When contacted again this Wednesday, officials repeated that the DPW had finished working in the area that may have forced the Anderson Bridge pipe into use, and that the smell would consequently disappear...
Timothy Watkins, an engineer who had been dispatched to the area by the Cambridge DPW to check the situation, said that there was nothing out of ordinary with the working of the pipe known officially as Combined Sewer Overflow number nine...
Vellucci further complained that the DPW keep Harvard Square far cleaner than East Cambridge, asking whether "John Harvard is somehow better" than his constituents...