Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don: Just now WCVB reported that Haverhill is dumping 35 million gallons per day, not 5 as I thought that I had heard, and that the Lawrence plant may soon be overwhelmd which, if it happens will add 115 million gallons. It's all going into the Merrimac and then enters the Atlantic at Newburyport. I just took a short ride around town. The red car has been pulled out and the water is much lower everywhere. The so-called "raging river" with "waist deep" water in front of the High School, as reported by the media yesterday, is gone. It's so much worse further north. On Saturday, Home Depot was selling between 50 to 60 sump pumps per HOUR! Jim Jim Hemenway wrote: > Don: > > Thanks for the short story. If you're familiar with the Boston area, > all rivers north of the Charles are affected. > > The worst are in the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border areas about > 20-30 miles north of me. A few dams are being watched carefully with > one in Methuan being the one most worried about. The Merrimac river is > the highest that it's been since sometime in the '30s. Haverhill's > sewer treatment plant has failed and is "reported" to be dumping five > million gallons into the river daily. > > Our governor, who wants to be the next President, promised last October > on the occasion of the Taunton dam failing, that he would have all dams > in Massachusetts quickly inspected. Only 49% have been. Some of those > which haven't, were last inspected in 1949! > > The media are having a high time of it. One reporter was, (speaking > with a straight face) that the Millpond here in Winchester had > overflowed it's banks and had turned the road on which she was standing > into a "raging river". BUT, the water behind her was very still. Then > she said that the water was "chest deep", while in the background about > 200-300 feet behind her, a town worker in yellow foul weather gear was > walking about in water only halfway to his knees. > > This is one time when I greatly appreciate auto exposure and auto focusing. > > Jim, "In foul weather gear, and somewhat foul himself" Hemenway >