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Park in Edgehill thrives

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, September 29, 2006

When Carolyn Friedman, a resident of the Edgehill neighborhood, sets foot in the Southern Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority park, she enters what she calls a “microcosm of Vermont.” The black-eyed Susans are in bloom, and monarch butterflies flit among the butterfly weeds. The ponds below are lined with gum trees.

“I feel as if I am miles away from New Haven,” Friedman said in an e-mail.

But amid the natural setting there is a structure incongruous with the rest of the park, one that resembles a crashed spaceship. It is the Regional Water Authority...

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