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...Federal Power Commission and the courts do grant Con Ed condemnation rights next fall, the power company will build five dikes on the Harvard land and pump water from a Hudson River reservoir into a valley in the forest...
...Hudson River water in the S-billion gallon reservoir is not only polluted but brackish, and there is a chance that seepage from the reservoir would spread salts through the soil in other areas of the forest. According to the conservationists' scenario, the vegetation in the area would die or be replaced by other salt-tolerant species...
Conservationists also claim that when the reservoir's polluted waters are drained everyday, the exposed bottom sludge would create a stench strong enough to drive away the hikers and hunters who normally roam the Black Rock Forest...
Recreational use of the reservoir would be out of the question. "If you were out boating when they pulled the plug. it would be a matter of being flushed down." Hamilton said...
...actual numbers of birds in Cambridge may not have changed much in recent years, but the composition of the population has. At the turn of the century, some five dozen species nested here, including 16 varieties of warblers and vireos. Except for the unsprayed area around Fresh Pond Reservoir, none of these warblers and vireos regularly nest here now. Only half a dozen native species next here in any numbers today. The commonest birds-the starlings, English sparrows, and pigeons-were all imported from Europe during the nineteenth century. Insecticides may account for some of this lack of variety...