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...public services, including a wretched sewer system that would cost at least $1,000,000 to modernize. In a heavy rain the sewers back up into the prosperous residents' basements. In addition, there is what Mrs. Margaret Jordan, lawyer and city councilwoman, calls "the specter of Tomahawk Creek Reservoir"-a proposed federal flood-control project that would create recreational facilities open to nonresidents. Another city council member puts the dilemma of Leawood's future neatly: "We know that change is inevitable, but we want to keep things the way they...
These are hotly debated issues but the town of Brattleboro (12,800 people) lies only four miles from the reactor, 65 per cent of the time downwind. Amherst is within forty miles as is Boston's entire water supply, the Quabbin Reservoir, soon to be supplemented by the Connecticut River. And twenty miles beyond Quabbin lies Springfield with more than 500,000 people. As the Tennessee Valley Authority's manager of power, G. O. Wessenauer, has said...
Urgent Pills. Long after the quake, Angelenos still trembled. Aftershocks continued to roll through the metropolitan area, each stirring concern that another major upheaval might be imminent. At least 60,000 valley residents whose homes lie below Van Norman Reservoir were ordered to stay away from their neighborhoods. Much of the restraining clam's concrete facing had slipped beneath the water, and its earthen backing had developed fissures. With each new shock-one reached a magnitude of 5.7-residents feared that 6 billion gallons of water might burst into the valley. The slow task of emptying...
...earth-fill dam of Van Norman Lake at the valley's west end suffered vertical cracks and some leaking of its 6.7 billion gallons of water, the city's largest reservoir. Thousands of families were evacuated and officials began draining the lake...
...American and European wildlife scientists now working at research stations in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda; never has the region hosted so many experts of this kind. Financed by governments, foundations and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the scientists are striving to conserve the world's largest reservoir of wildlife. Decades of indifference and exploitation have driven some species, such as the cheetah and the wild Somalia ass, to the brink of extinction. Africa's burgeoning population and the land hunger of many citizens in the newly independent nations continue to reduce the territory available for animals...