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Council Turns Down Neponset Site...
...series of check-dams, such as the dam in Waltham, holds back the water and diverts most of it to the Neponset Tidal Basin," he said...
Volpe's message recommends a marshland area on the Neponset River near Dorchester and Milton, now owned by the MDC, as the site for a new $6 million MBTA transit facility. It would replace the Bennett St. yards in Cambridge, the planned site for the library. It is clear that the marshland area is the best location for the new yards in metropolitan Boston. The results of a survey, to be released this week; show that no houses will be destroyed and no town lands used up. Earlier surveys have shown that the 12-acre Bennett St. site...
Also elected were Frederick W. McCarthy '63, of Dunster House and Dorchester, vice-president; Alston Fitts 1G, recording secretary; M. Patrick '64, of Lowell House and Webster Groves, Mo., corresponding secretary; and Gerald R. McMurray '64, of Lowell House and Neponset Queens, N.Y., treasurer...
Another complicating factor is the fact that one-third of the river's flow is diverted into the Neponset River through the 300-year-old Motherbrook Canal, with the result that as much as 15,000,000 gallons a day have to be pumped into the river to dilute the flow of sewage when it becomes too heavy...