As the home of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has never been short on big ideas. The Cambridge Department of Public Works (CDPW) is currently basking in the success of its own big idea — the establishment of the Alewife Reservation Stormwater Wetland to help control combined sewer overflowsMuch of the early history of Cambridge was driven by economic development, often in direct competition with the City of Boston to the south. Lowlands were raised, marshes and swamps were drained and the population expanded. The city’s first sewers were built in the 1850s
