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Wildlife breeding grounds

Description: Cape Cod wildlife breeding grounds are being forfeited to development. Endangered habitats. Man fishing in hip waders. Wild flowers. Barnstable pond. Dirt bike, bulldozer, dump trucks. Dramatic sky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/20/1990

Woburn awaits Superfund cleanup

Description: Woburn hazardous waste cleanup awaits Superfund reauthorization. EPA regional administrator Michael Deland says “public health is not being threatened at the Woburn site.” Rep. Edward Markey.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1985

YMCA conserves water

Description: Cambridge YMCA conserves water by repairing leaky pipes and installing flow restricters in shower heads. Children in Y pool. Cambridge Reservoir. Ilyas Bhatti, MDC Commissioner. Sound effect of water lapping over stones.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1989

“Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery”

Description: Explanation of origin and effect of acid rain. Ominous smokestacks. Deteriorating building surfaces. Blue- lit Lincoln Memorial. Impact on food crops, non- cultivated vegetation, water bodies, and marine life. Spotted salamander, peeper frog. Deformed amphibian embryos. 1982 documentary from National Film Board of Canada.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

“Nuclear Power in New England”

Description: “Nuclear Power in New England.” Yankee Atomic Electric plant in Rowe, Massachusetts. Connecticut Yankee, Millstone I and II. Nuclear engineer Vicki Swisher explains how power is generated. Signs in at security desk, tours control room. Processing of mined rocks and soil to extract, purify, pelletize uranium 235 for conversion to fuel bundles. Refueling of rods in reactor core. Men in yellow protective suits. Pressurized steam lines to turbine turn generator. Cooling towers. Low level radioactive waste being trucked away (to where?) in steel container for disposal. Marine biologist explains aquatic environmental testing for damage to sea life. Health physicist explains air quality monitoring for emissions. Pilgrim Station in Plymouth, Maine Yankee, Vermont Yankee plants. ©1977 Electric Council of New England.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1977