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Traphole Brook Protection Association and Developer Meet to Discuss Proposed Union Street and Route 1 Shopping Center Project-September 11, 1973

Lanning Corp. meets with the Traphole Brook Protection Association to discuss stormwater runoff and environmental safeguards for a proposed Route 1 shopping center.

A polluted brook littered with trash, including tires, cans, plastic bags, and a shopping cart, surrounded by old houses and bare trees under a cloudy sky.
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Neglect Threatens Traphole Brook-July 7, 1971

On July 7, 1971, environmental advocates warned that government negligence and illegal filling had turned Walpole and Norwood's pristine Traphole Brook into little better than an open sewer.