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...contamination hazard forces Cambridge to take water from the Quabbin reservoir, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will be "hard-pressed" to supply water to all its customers, said M. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC's director of watershed management. Extremely low levels of rainfall this winter have already prompted state officials to declare a "water emergency" for Boston and 43 other communities served by the Quabbin...
...state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) declared a water emergency on February 16. Currently, the Quabbin reservoir is at 68 percent capacity, the lowest level in 15 years...
...interview after the meeting, Barrett said the shortage in the Quabbin reservoir demonstrates that protecting Cambridge water is in the interest of the entire state...
Greenbaum added that the water quality drops in three steps as the level declines. First, sand and sediments at the bottom of the reservoir mix, causing tap water to appear dirty. Also, as the water gets shallower, its temperature rises, meaning bacteria have a better chance to survive...
Thirdly, the sediments could possibly contain metals that are not ordinarily found in the upper levels of the reservoir, Greenbaum said...