Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afflicted the big city was plaguing a widespread area of the Northeast U.S. and parts of Canada. Anglers on New Brunswick's Kedgwick and Restigouche rivers went home salmonless because the rivers were so low that the fish could not make it upstream to spawn. At the Quabbin Reservoir, near Springfield, Mass., the water level dropped so far that a long-submerged race track came into view like a relic of some lost Atlantis. In Maine the 30 million-lb. blueberry crop was nearing its critical growth period in need of moisture. And the city of Concord...
...country and overseas. In addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory in the U.S., is building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from the large reservoir of hot brine under the Salton Sea in California's Imperial Valley. It is also the only company that extracts salt by all three existing production methods: dry mining, brine pumping and solar evaporation of salt water...
...shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
Most seriously hit was El Cobre, a tiny copper town run by a subsidiary of Baron Guy de Rothschild's Société Minière et Métallurgique de Penarroya. For 35 years the mineowners had channeled their slag into a reservoir behind a 230-ft. earth dam. Just below the dam were the wooden huts of the town's 400 miners. When the tremors came, the dam gave way, and the thick, muddy waste exploded out across the valley, burying 200 people in seconds. One woman who saw it coming managed to scramble...
...side of the Andes to Peru's parched coastal lowlands by diverting the course of three rivers through mountain tunnels. Last week on the northern coast, engineers were at work on a project to channel water from the Chotano River through ten miles of tunnels down to a reservoir near Chiclayo, where 200,000 desert acres will go into production...