Mention “the reservoir” to people in Brookline today and they will probably think of one of two bodies of water: the Chestnut Hill Reservoir or the Brookline Reservoir.

But the Chestnut Hill Reservoir is actually in the Boston part of Chestnut Hill, just over the Brookline border.  

And the much older Brookline Reservoir, while in Brookline, was built as part of Boston’s water supply, not Brookline's.

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