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Healy attributed the creation of a separate water system to the foresight of the Cambridge city fathers in the 1800s, who worked with the Massachusetts Legislature to acquire Fresh Pond, which became the city’s water source.
He also addressed “a very weird phenomenon” in which certain city employees, such as police officers and firefighters, who get paid on Thursdays will account for another $1.2 million increase in the budget due to a 53rd pay week in fiscal year 2011.
A reduction in state aid and the increase in the city’s budget will result in a “modest” property tax increase, Healy said. He added that his goal over the next three months is to reduce the tax levy impact, which he hopes...
As a result of the potential water contamination—which would not have affected Cambridge’s water supply—the state issued a “boil-water” order for 30 Boston-area communities.
An administrator at the Harvard School of Public Health, which was in the process of clearing water taps and reconnecting ice machines yesterday, said that the crisis had been a good test for the school’s emergency management team.