The following excerpt is from WBUR
It’s been a terrible summer of flash floods across New England. Massive floods tore through Vermont earlier in the season. In Massachusetts, communities like Leominster and North Attleborough had homes and streets damaged in hours, and Boston registered the second-wettest summer in recorded history.
As rainfall is expected to become heavier with climate change, communities are looking for ways to prevent flood damage. Increasingly, that has meant using methods that have worked for thousands of years.
In Reading, one solution has been to literally dig a hole — in fact, several holes: a series of seven ponds that will hold storm water. Some are 10-feet deep. The goal is to avoid flooding in nearby neighborhoods and help slow the flow of water to downstream communities. [Read More]
