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Harvard officials announced yesterday that workmen had begun Thursday to fill in the pond, located on the fringe of Harvard's Arnold Arboretum, with granite blocks from an adjacent lot. The blocks will reduce the pond's depth from five or six feet to a maximum of 18 inches, Daniel Steiner, General Counsel to the University, said yesterday...
City workmen will clear debris out of the pond's outlet, which flows through an adjacent, city-owned, lot. The University's statement said that the clearing of the channel would "increase the flew of water from the pond to the catch basin located on City land and thereby maintain the low water-level...
Steiner said yesterday that Harvard had decided not to fill in the pond completely and drain the surrounding marsh because "it didn't seem necessary and it was terribly expensive. I think from a safety point of view this takes care of the hazard...
Steiner said that Harvard had begun negotiating with the City in the week of May 17, just after two small children had drowned in the pond. "The city has been very cooperative," he said...
...children-Margaret and Olyde Johnson, aged eight and nine- drowned on May 15 when their make shift raft capsized in the pond. A third Johnson child, Leslie, was rescued by a Boston patrolman who struggled to resuscitate him for more than 30 minutes...