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...past years, a number of groups have pressured the commission to act on the Harbor pollution problem. But it was suits filed by the town of Quincy and later by the Environmental Protection Agency that brought the issue to a head...
Haar, with the subsequent endorsement of Garrity, the Bank of Boston and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, put forth a proposal for a sewer authority independent of the MDC and the State, which would be specifically responsible for handling the area's sewage and cleaning up the harbor...
...plan, if implemented, would greatly increase chances for improvements in harbor cleanup and sewage treatment, said Metropolitan District Commission executive assistant Stephen P. Burgay...
Burgay said the proposed sewer authority would be able to raise the more than $1 billion needed over the next 20 years to completely overhaul the system and clean the harbor. Under the proposed legislation, the state would assume nearly all the commission's liabilities...
Garrity could not be reached for comment.The harbor viewed from one of Boston's piers. A state judge who is hearing a pollution lawsuit against the Metropolitan District Commission may decide to place the Hub's sewer authority in receivership this afternoon...