Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company dredged the opening channel through the reefs of Pearl Harbor in 1902, eventually deepened it enough to change Pearl from a little coaling station to one of the world's great harbors. Walter Dillingham used the muck dragged up from the sea to fill in low, marshy areas around Honolulu, over the years created 5,000 acres of solid ground that now holds a full third of the city's population, is valued at upwards of $280 million. Most valuable of all is a section that before 1925 was nothing but a narrow sand crescent, covered with...
...Boston College seismograph station in Weston described the tremor as "a slight earthquake lasting from five to ten seconds." The center of the disturbance was in Boston Harbor, and it was felt as far as about fifteen miles inland in Massachusetts and New Hampshire...
...million to turn Nimba's jagged 111-acre summit into a massive mine. Last week huge shovels scooped Nimba's soft ore into 32-ton Haulpaks, native drilling teams dotted the mountainside and a fully automated crushing plant ground out ore for shipment to a man-made harbor at Buchanan...
There is another, more serious, source of river poisoning. The Metropolitan Distric Commission operates two sewage trunk lines that lie at the bottom of the Charles. These pipes are supposed to carry waste from Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, and parts of Boston to a treatment plant in Boston Harbor. But the trunk lines now operating are too small to handle all of the flow. So the MDC is forced to release the excess volume into the Charles through a number of overflow valves...
...Charles and to solve similar problems in the greater Boston area, the MDC began a $104 million sewer expansion program in 1954. The project called for a three to five-fold increase in the capacity of trunk lines and the construction of two new treatment plants in Boston Harbor. Although a scandal in 1959 interrupted the program for two years, it should be completed sometime in 1965. After 1965, the Charles and other nearby rivers should be pollution-free...