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...knowledge of the forest. Contrary to Mr. Raup's opinion, the area to be taken over by Con Edison is of drastic significance to the woodland. The face of Storm King Mountain, White Horse Mountain, and considerable acreage in the Black Rock area were to be sacrificed for a "reservoir." The term reservoir is used only in connection with pure water, but in fact the water will be saline and polluted. Furthermore, Con Edison itself admits that it could not guarantee against seepage which would tremendously affect the surrounding watershed area. Finally, the 200 foot earthen fill dam was shown...
...blocking a Hudson River hydroelectric project, the court reprieved a portion of the Harvard Black Rock Forest scheduled to be inundated by an 8-billion-gallon reservoir...
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...proposed reservoir would store water pumped up from the Hudson and release it to run generators by its descent. With a 12-million-kilowatt capacity, the $162 million Consolidated Edison installation would be the largest of its kind in the world...
...Sahara and the Middle East has now descended on lands as far off as Korea and Bechuanaland. Australia is suffering its worst water shortage in half a century; the normally moist northeastern U.S. is watching its green lawns wither through the end of a dry summer while its reservoir levels drop lower and lower. And even in the areas where water remains abundant, man is fouling it with his untreated sewage and industrial wastes...