Employees of EC3 Environmental Consulting Group, Inc., participate in conducting a controlled burn of grass and foliage at Stewart-McBride Park in the Village of Mount Pleasant near Racine, Wis. on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The villag has plans to retrofit a dry retention pond and conducted the controlled burn on the area to eliminate grass and foliage that has overgrown the pond space. A retention pond stores water runoff from surrounding areas and releases it at a controlled rate. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Scott Anderson)
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