
“‘A serious wake-up call.’ Thirty years ago, this flood swamped the Green Line and changed how Boston thinks about parks.”
The Boston Globe commemorated the Muddy River floods of 1996 with a front-page article by columnist Danny McDonald on October 25, 2026. Kudos to MMOC members Karen Mauney-Brodek and Lisa Kumpf for contributing to this important piece. The article is excerpted here: ………. A clogged-up and neglected human-made urban river.