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Geology News
Massachusetts Current Events

A housing and health care facility for senior citizens in Massachusetts will be heated and cooled by over 400 geothermal wells. They project that this system will save at least $400,000 per year in energy costs.

The website for the Office of the Massachusetts State Geologist has been extensively updated. Here are some highlights…

• A new page of educational resources (lesson plans, websites) for Earth Science Teachers and the general public
• A new “Maps, Data, and Publications” page that is much more inclusive of the scattered and myriad geologic information that’s available for the state
• Much improved access to maps produced by the OMSG — no more having crawl around our FTP server to download them!
• A new page of resources for GSHP installers

MSN Travel has a photo gallery of thirteen spectacular bridges from around the world. These include: Millau Viaduct, France; Puente de Alamillo, Spain; Kintai-kyo, Japan; Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia; Golden Gate Bridge, California; Pont Neuf, France; San Diego-Coronado Bridge, California; Vasco da Gama Bridge, Portugal; Tower Bridge, England; Bridge of the Americas, Panama; Oberbaumbrücke, Germany; Zakim Bridge, Massachusetts; and Erasmusbrug, Netherlands.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and the U.S. Geological Survey are producing maps of Cape Cod Bay. These maps will be of value for mitigating natural hazards, protecting fisheries and monitoring environmental change. This article describes some of the procedures used and the potential use of the data.

Massachusetts Map

Contamination from the Massachusetts Military Reservation has caused extensive environmental damage and produced a decades-long, billion dollar clean-up project. Denis LeBlanc, a graduate of MIT and an expert on the hydrology of Cape Cod gave the 2007 Freeman Lecture sponsored by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. A summary of his lecture is posted at WebWire. It details the history of contamination, study and clean-up at this site.