Radcliffe's Wetting Irks the Neighbors

The sprinklers were quietly phut-phutting about their business, which was keeping the grass greener at Radcliffe yard than anywhere else in Cambridge.

But, as the drought parched their lawns, the water department limited the hours when they could water them, whereupon the Cliffe blithely ignored the water department, causing the neighbors to go into a slow burn.

Last week the 'Cliffe responded to a shower of complaints, including an editorial in the weekly Cambridge Chrenicle. A spokesman out-lined the 'Cliffe's position, which happens to be over two of its own wells that he said prevides per cent of the water used for sprinkling.