Graves aren’t the only things underground at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Also buried: a new system for storing water to prevent flooding when it rains.  Massive tanks lie underneath a storage yard for trucks and lawn equipment —  waiting to hold rainfall to avoid stressing area sewers, which become inundated during downpours.  Elsewhere, the cemetery […]

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