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Reservoir: The Ashokan Reservoir, located in Ulster County, New York, USA. It supplies New York City with drinking water.
 
 
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A reservoir is a body of water held by a dam on a river or stream, usually for use in irrigation, electricity generation, or urban consumption. By catching and holding floods in spring or in a rainy season, reservoirs also prevent flooding...


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EPA unit probing Mo. reservoir collapse
7/3/2007: 329 words, approx. 1 pages
Criminal investigators at the Environmental Protection Agency are looking into a 2005 reservoir collapse that flooded a state park, injuring the park superintendent and his family, documents show.The collapse of Ameren Corp.'s Taum Sauk reservoir in southeast Missouri washed mud, rocks and debris into the...
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Toxic algae remains in Ind. reservoir
9/4/2007: 369 words, approx. 1 pages
The latest round of tests show that a toxic algae bloom on Geist Reservoir continues with little change in the toxin's levels in the lake, a state health official said.Test results received late Friday show that algae levels in the 1,800-acre reservoir on Indianapolis' northeast...
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Mo. offers reservoir breach settlement
12/15/2006: 313 words, approx. 1 pages
A state agency has offered to let a utility resolve claims for damages and fines stemming from a reservoir breach for $125 million, according to a settlement offer obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.The Missouri Department of Natural Resources submitted the proposal to Ameren Corp....
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3rd convicted in reservoir bodies case
4/27/2007: 266 words, approx. 1 pages
A third man was convicted Thursday for taking part in a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme that resulted in the killing of five people whose bodies were found in a Northern California reservoir.Prosecutors argued Petro Krylov, 34, a Ukrainian, was part of a ring that sought to amass...
 


 

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