Word: ponds
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Harvard is currently filling in the "Muddy Pond"-a marshy waterhole in the Jamaica Plain in which two small children drowned last month...
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...
...letter to the CRR. Kennedy said that Rothchild's conduct showed "grave disrespect for the dignity of others." Rothchild said last night that Kennedy's failure to comment on the pond drownings "amounts to much more than grave disrespect; it amounts to murder...