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Though just outside the city that pioneered the concept of water and sewer systems in early America, Boston Harbor lay nearly biologically dead in the mid-1980s. Besides the unsightliness of the harbor that formed the backdrop of Bush's political advertisement, Boston Harbor experienced large-scale and wide-ranging ecological problems...
Prior to September 2000, treated wastewater from the Deer Island Treatmen Plant re-entered the harbor through a series of outfall pipes and diffusers located along the President Roads, the main shipping channel connecting the inner harbor with Massachusetts...
...shallow waters of the channel, a plume of wastewater frequently set up off Deer Island that could be seen by any jet aircraft taking off from Logan Airport. Ships passing through the area carried the toxins both away from the harbor and back toward shore. Although 85 percent clean, this plume occasionally fouled dense areas of marine life in large parts of the inner harbor...
...Predictions, tests, and data on the new outfall all seem to indicate that this is a safe system. It is certainly much cleaner and healthier for the environment in general and the harbor in particular," Yeo says...
...violation of the Federal Clean Water Act of 1972, which mandated that cities put all wastewater through two filtering processes before releasing it into the ocean, Boston had been pumping improperly treated sewage into the harbor for years...