Thursday. January 15th at 6 PM via Zoom
Late last year, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority floated its plans for sewage elimination in our rivers. But MassDEP rejected those plans in December, stating, “an approach that would result in a greater number of activations and/or volumes than occur at present would not appear to be consistent with the federal Clean Water Act or the Massachusetts Surface Water Quality Standards.” Conservation Law Foundation looked at MWRA’s plans and said, “MWRA’s current approach to CSOs violates both the letter and spirit of the law.”
But MWRA has not changed course.
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is expected to say that eliminating sewage pollution will not improve water quality. Nonsense.
MWRA has $2.1 billion in expiring bonds. These are the bonds that were used to fund the original Boston Harbor projects. With this debt expiring, MWRA has the budget to issue new bonds to fund CSO projects without a shocking impact on our sewer bills.
MWRA has the financial ability to pay for projects to end sewage pollution at Alewife Brook and in the Mystic River. And in the Charles River, too.
Ending Sewage Pollution at Alewife Brook means
MWRA MUST PAY ITS FAIR SHARE!
Please attend.
Thursday, January 15th at 6 PM via Zoom