This is the EPA’s May 11, 2022, guidance for MWRA, regarding their new CSO control plan “draft scope”
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EPA response to Draft Scope, sent to Cambridge
This is the EPA’s guidance for Cambridge, regarding their new CSO control plan “draft scope”
EPA response to Draft Scope, sent to Somerville
This is the EPA’s response to Somerville’s new CSO control plan “draft scope”
March 2022 Letter to Regulators from StAB & Watershed Associations
March 11, 2022 Via email Regional Administrator David Cash Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1 5 Post Office Square, Suite 100 Boston, MA 02109 david.cash@epa.gov Commissioner Martin Suuberg Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection One Winter Street Boston, MA 02108 martin.suuberg@state.ma.us Dear Regional Administrator Cash and Commissioner Suuberg: We are at anContinue reading “March 2022 Letter to Regulators from StAB & Watershed Associations”
MWRA Final CSO Performance Assessment Hearing Notification
Massachusetts Water Resources Authority PRESS RELEASE Date: January 6, 2022 Contact: Ria Convery (617) 788-1105, ria.convery@mwra.com Public Briefing on MWRA’s CSO Post-Construction Monitoring and Performance Assessment, Final Report The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) will hold a virtual public briefing on the findings of its Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Post-Construction Monitoring and Performance Assessment on Thursday, FebruaryContinue reading “MWRA Final CSO Performance Assessment Hearing Notification”
The Boston Harbor Cleanup by Paul F. Levy & Michael S. Connor, published in 1992
New England Journal of Public Policy Volume 8 | Issue 2 Article 7 9-23-1992 The Boston Harbor Cleanup Paul F. Levy Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael S. Connor Massachusetts Resources Authority
Somerville’s IDDE Stormwater MS4 Plan, June 2020
Somerville’s top six worst stormwater outfalls discharge into the Alewife Brook.
MWRA BIANNUAL COMPLIANCE AND PROGRESS REPORT AS OF JUNE 25, 2021
CIVIL ACTION No. 85-0489-RGS UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT for the DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, . v. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION, . et al., Defendants. . CIVIL ACTION No. 83-1614-RGS CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION OF . NEW ENGLAND, INC., Plaintiff, . v. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION, Defendants. . This is the MWRA BIANNUAL COMPLIANCE ANDContinue reading “MWRA BIANNUAL COMPLIANCE AND PROGRESS REPORT AS OF JUNE 25, 2021”
Somerville’s 2020 Stormwater Management Plan
This document outlines the stormwater management practices that are currently in place and ones that will be implemented in the future both under the City’s volition and to comply with the requirements of the 2016 MS4 General Permit and the 2019 Administrative Order issued from the EPA to the City. EPA NPDES Permit Number MAR041082Continue reading “Somerville’s 2020 Stormwater Management Plan”
United States v. Metropolitan District Commission July 2021
Civil Action 83-1614-RGS United States District Court, District of Massachusetts United States v. Metropolitan District Commission Decided Jul 23, 2021
Court Case 2016 Document, including Compliance Order 239, USA v. MDC & CLF v. MDC
Doug Foy, Esq., director of the Conservation Law Foundation, who brought the groundbreaking Boston Harbor Clean-up lawsuit, probably quoting an ubran sociologist, said, “A great city had three characteristics: It had world-renown cultural and educational institutions. It had enduring distinctive residential neighborhoods, and it had a body of water that it embraced.”
CRWA MyRWA 2021 Letter re US v MDC
2021 Letter from the Charles River Watershed Association and the Mystic River Watershed Association to the US District Court regarding the federal court case U.S. v. MDC and the state CLF v. MDC court cases.