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Rain water drains into a series of small ponds and streams and then flows into Cambridge's two primary water sources: the Hobbs Brook Reservoir in Lincoln and the Stony Brook Reservoir in Weston...
...clear of Serb forces, the mines had already been detonated. Gushing water threatened to burst the 210-ft.-high (65-m) structure altogether, washing away the homes of 20,000 people downstream. At week's end Croatian officials were working feverishly to shore it up and drain the reservoir behind...
Little progress has been made on cleaning up the surrounding region. There is no equipment to decontaminate topsoil, and contaminated groundwater is backing up behind a concrete barrier near the reservoir that supplies water to the 2.6 million residents of Kiev. More than 700 peasants evacuated in 1986 have quietly moved back to their farm plots, where they consume contaminated animals and produce. "They would rather die here than live somewhere else," says Alexander Borovoi, a Russian nuclear physicist in charge of the sarcophagus. Some returned to find their homes pillaged of religious art. Although contaminated with cesium...
...have dogs and large rats around the reservoir. Giardia in the water [which comes from dog feces] is a significant health concern of the Water Board," said Cyr. "The one place in the city where dogs are allowed to run free is in the public drinking water...
...council has also formed a committee to study the "repeated attacks on joggers, strollers and other dogs" at the reservoir. Recently, a dog broke the hip of a 60 year-old woman...