Elena Palladino lives in a white, three-story, 20-room, colonial revival house. One day in 2018 two black-and-white photos of it from when it was built in the 1930s arrived in an unmarked envelope in ...
Students and teachers at Swift River Elementary School cannot drink its tap water, which has been contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals since 2021. An eight-minute drive away, clean water from the ...
There's a move on Beacon Hill to correct what some lawmakers say is an injustice that dates back nearly 100 years, to when the state created the enormous Quabbin Reservoir. A bill before the ...
A social media post about Boston's water winning a taste contest alerted the Western Massachusetts legislator to the fact that residents of Greater Boston had no idea where their water came from: the ...
Though it’s located in Western and Central Massachusetts, most of the water from the Quabbin Reservoir flows to the Boston area. Those around the Quabbin’s 412 billion-gallon body of water don’t have ...
They aren’t your typical ghost towns. In place of the stereotypical tumbleweeds are waves lapping upon the shore, the dusty streets replaced by clean drinking water for the city of Boston, some 65 ...
As House Democrats eye the expansion of its public drinking water service area, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is considering whether the communities where that water comes from should ...