by Middleton Stream Team | May 13, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 16, 2014 Middleton has an interesting valley stretching one-half mile west to east between East and Locust streets. In its draw a brook runs over clean sand easterly through a red maple swamp now resplendent in opening skunk cabbages....
by Middleton Stream Team | May 6, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 9, 2014 Almost two centuries of railroads have changed our continent and the world. In America internal combustion engines on paved roads have largely passed them by. In eastern Massachusetts the web of rail beds now lie relatively silent...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 29, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for May 5, 2014 What a very strange place is the Salton Sea in southern California. Off and on for many thousands of years it was not a sea at all. Then in 1905 manmade canals to irrigate its desert land received flood waters from the mighty Colorado...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 22, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 25, 2014 Back in late winter we fretted from afar about droughts and fires in magnificent, one thousand mile long, California, a state with mountains four times Massachusetts’s highest, and Death Valley several hundred feet below sea level. ...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 15, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 18, 2014 On March 11, 2011 the tsunami came ashore and surged far inland along the low northeast coast of Honshu, Japan. The power plant at Fukushima was severely damaged. Radiation still leaks from it three years later. This story continues...
by Middleton Stream Team | Apr 8, 2014 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for April 11, 2014 Last week a Closeteer received an old fashioned letter via snail mail from a farmer friend for two-thirds of a century. They went to school together in the “Pioneer Valley”, more appropriately called the Connecticut Valley. Both were...
