Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, a cover for the Payson Park reservoir will be considered this spring. The cover would cost $2-3 million according to Cambridge Water Board member Donald E. Horning...
...think, at least with people in their 30s, there's a terrific reservoir of respect for McGovern and what he did in '72," said Parker. "And then there's not to expect for the other candidates he said...
...Communist drive down the center of Korea's waist broke all contact between the Eighth Army and General Almond's X Corps, sprawled out over northeastern Korea. At the Changjin reservoir, Major General Oliver Prince Smith's 1st Marine Division had made a vain try to cut in behind the Chinese attacking the Eighth. Now Smith's men were attacked by ten Communist divisions, which threw an iron ring around the reservoir...
...three marine regiments, which had been in separated positions around the reservoir, finally fought their way through to junction in Hagaru, to the south, after running into bloody ambushes along the roads. The Communists fired on them comfortably at steep grades and hairpin turns, where the marines' vehicles slowed to a crawl. A dreadful indication of the casualties in this sector was that 1,200 wounded were flown out in the first two days...
When the city's water supply failed to keep pace with expansion, private industries, hotels and housing estates sank their own artesian wells into the water table on which the city rests. During the past 15 years, with more than 11,000 wells sucking the underground reservoir dry, the city has been sinking at a rate of four to twelve inches a year. Parts of the city have dropped as much as three feet. Warns Prinya Nutalaya, professor of geotechnical engineering at the Asian Institute of Technology: "If nothing is done, all of Bangkok will be under water...