by Middleton Stream Team | Nov 2, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for November 6, 2015 [pullquote]”Erica Goode in the October 29, New York Times, relates global warming to cod declines, especially acute in the Gulf of Maine waters, our sea.”[/pullquote]The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, long economically...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 26, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 30, 2015 [pullquote]”Then there are a dozen additional variables besides pigments on the unseen artist’s broad palate: temperature, light angle, light intensity, humidity, genetics, rain amounts, frosts, cloud cover, wind, air pollution,...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 20, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
The Water Closet for October 23, 2015 [pullquote]”The broad river floodplain around it stretching deep into Peabody and Danvers is in season a flower garden of herbaceous wetland plants and woody bushes often described here in the Water...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 13, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
The Water Closet for October 16, 2015 [pullquote]”But whatever short term injury it might endure, the alternatives are far worse: devastating droughts, some causing massive refugee populations, which in turn could cause wars, catastrophic storms, wreaking...
by Middleton Stream Team | Oct 6, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 9, 2015 [pullquote]”By noon Wednesday the water was up a foot at the south Middleton gauge.”[/pullquote]Early last Wednesday morning, the last day of September, rain finally came after an otherwise dry month. The duff and topsoil...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 28, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for October 2, 2015 [pullquote]”Thank you Pope Francis for your encyclical Laudato Si and for your follow up visits and wise words.”[/pullquote]Francis flew over the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Caribbean to be with his fellow Americans. Some...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 21, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 25, 2015 [pullquote]”The inundated areas called beaver meadows, with year round water and lots of light, are lush with life.”[/pullquote] Last Friday thirteen Middleton Council on Aging/Conservation Commission hikers were...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 14, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 18, 2015 [pullquote]”The steam produced in the boiler goes out a high pressure hose to the engine’s reciprocating piston which slides smoothly in a brass cylinder. The piston rod moves a crank which pedals an axle with a large...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 8, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 11, 2015 [pullquote]”If you are interested in helping to protect our ever more important natural resources contact Kristin Kent, Conservation Agent or Derek Fullerton, Conservation Administrator and Public Health Director at 195 North...
by Middleton Stream Team | Sep 1, 2015 | Water Closet Blog
Water Closet for September 4, 2015 [pullquote]”The delta system south of New Orleans greatly damaged by dredged navigation channels and oil-gas line canals didn’t buffer Katrina as it had during so many hurricanes before.” [/pullquote]Shaded and colored...
