Amazing Board of Health document declares, “that the sewer in North Cambridge which enters Tannery Brook, the sewage from which flows along and enters Alewife Brook, is a menace to the health of the neighborhood, and should be remedied without delay”
and recommends combined sewer separation
“there is no doubt, in the opinion of the Board, that the best plan of preventing the further pollution of Alewife Brook by sewage from the combined sewers, which now discharge into that stream, is to separate the sewage from the storm water in these combined areas”
115 years later, this work still has not been done! We’ve been kicking the can down the road so long that the costs have escalated. If we don’t fix it now, what will the cost be in the future? And why are the Environmental Justice communities continually expected to absorb those costs?