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from North Lake in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. A newspaper photo shows a machine similar to a

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on very wide crawlers. Aquatic Environments, a

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contractor, used an aquamog to scoop up muck at the

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lagoon, in a project expected to take 26 days. The name ''aquamog'' was derived from the multi-purpose vehicle ''

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'' produced by

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