Images from an environmental journalist's past
Military ordnance discovered at Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, Mass., is destroyed in a controlled explosion. /Cape Cod Times image
Hodgson Brook at the former Pease Air Force Base in Portsmouth, N.H., was an oily mess for decades, mainly from airport operations-linked chemical contamination. /Hodgson Brook Watershed Restoration Plan image
In 2013, construction runoff chokes Hodgson Brook off New Hampshire Avenue at Pease International Tradeport. /Christopher Cheney photo for seacoastonline.com
On the Charles River in July 1997, a couple fishes near a boat launch area in Millis, Mass. /Paul Kapteyn photo for Middlesex News
Two decades later, the former boat launch area in Millis is choked with vegetation and goes dry in summer months. /Google Earth images
Sherborn (Good) has protected The Charles from over-development. Medfield (Bad) has built to the riverbanks. /Google Earth image
Sediment has filled half of "The Lagoon" in Marlborough, Mass. For decades, oil-tainted water has flowed from the man-made pond's dam and spillway (lower right) into the Sudbury Reservoir. /Google Earth image
The Maple Street environmental damage hot-zone in Marlborough, Mass., including The Lagoon (lower right) /Google Earth image
"The Lagoon" (top left) is filled with petroleum-contaminated sediment and drains into a northern portion of the Sudbury Reservoir in Marlborough.
Kellogg-Deering Well Field, Norwalk, Conn. /EPA image
An Environmental Protection Agency-led cleanup "cooked" tons of toxic-waste tainted soil at the Solvent Recovery Service of New England Superfund site in Southington, Conn. The cooking treatment included vacuum-equipped machinery to collect carcinogens that were among the deadliest byproducts of the underground heating process. /Image via srsnesite.com
The lagoon field, the most contaminated area of the SRS Superfund site, is prepped to be "cooked" in the fall 2013. /Image via srsnesite.com
It is hard for me to imagine that a nature trail will one day pass through the now rotted heart of the Solvent Recovery Service of New England Superfund site in Southington, Conn. /Image via Farmington Valley Trails Council
In a case of horrific local and state government negligence, the decision to shift the primary source of drinking water in Flint, Mich., from the Detroit water supply to the highly acidic Flint River is spotlighting a nationwide water-infrastructure nightmare. /Image via www.dogonews.com
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