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...Cambridge state representative has sponsored legislation to reduce the contamination of local reservoir water, aides said yesterday...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: State Rep. Wants Reservoir Clean-Up | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...bill proposed by State Rep. Charles F. Flaherty Jr. (D-Cambridge) would require the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW) to redirect a drainage pipe running from three major roadways into the Cambridge Reservoir...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: State Rep. Wants Reservoir Clean-Up | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...source of that water seemed inexhaustible. Much of it comes + from 165-sq.-mi., dam-created Gatun Lake, through which the ships pass on their route across the isthmus. Most of the remainder is tapped from nearby Madden Lake, formed in 1935 (also by damming) to provide an additional reservoir of water for the dry season. But now a 375-page report by Stanley Heckadon Moreno, an environmentalist at Panama's Ministry of Planning, has raised a startling worry about the canal's future: it may be running short of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Trouble Ahead for the Canal? | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...Illinois, where North American collegians gather to consider overseas work. At the last meeting, in 1984, 4,683 students filed written pledges that they would go overseas, and 10,153 more vowed to pray about taking the step, double the commitments at the 1981 gathering. Says Kyle: "The reservoir of potential missionary candidates on the college campuses is astounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Foreign Legion | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...Lincoln, around Cambridge Reservoir, and then come back in through Watertown," says Allis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biking to Glory With the All-New Cycling Club | 10/19/1985 | See Source »

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