[CPEO-BIF] Spicket River greenway, Lawrence, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Recovery along the Spicket; urban greenway to thread along river

By Keith Eddings
North Andover Eagle-Tribune
July 28, 2011

LAWRENCE - Much of this city's story can be told by the Spicket River.

A trickle in mid-summer but a thundering force after a heavy spring  
rain, the Spicket offered a reedy settlement to the Pentucket  
Indians, drove the turbines in some of the world's biggest mills and  
provided a place where industrial wastes and sewage could be dumped  
and forgotten about for a century.

As the mills closed and the jobs disappeared, the Spicket became a  
symbol of the decline of the city at its mouth. Most of the river was  
barricaded behind chain link fences and a wall of weeds, largely  
forgotten except by illegal dumpers and the neighbors who are  
reminded of its presence whenever it overflows its banks.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x1926599077/Recovery-along-the- 
Spicket-urban-greenway-to-thread-along-river

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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