Quabbin Reservoir

A Community of Necessity: The Quabbin Reservoir's History and the Future of "Managed Retreat"

by Elisabeth C. Rosenberg

In 1939 the dammed Swift River submerged four Massachusetts towns beneath the new Quabbin Reservoir. The story of the residents, politicians and engineers of the Swift Valley foreshadows the negotiations that will accompany a managed retreat from places jeopardized by climate change.