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BOSTON -- As a major milestone towards the completion of
the
$3.5-billion Boston Harbor Project, the Massachusetts Water
Resources
Authority (MWRA) recently celebrated the final demolition of the old
Deer
Island Sewage Treatment Plant, which is replaced by the New Boston
Harbor
Treatment Plant.
The demolition event followed six months of successful testing of
the new
plant, which became operational simultaneously with final shutdown of
the
Deer Island facility. Tearing down the old wastewater treatment
plant, which
was built in 1968, was viewed by officials as tangible evidence that
the
Boston Harbor cleanup will be completed as scheduled in 1999.
"The environmental improvements to Boston Harbor will be a lasting
legacy,"
said Douglas MacDonald, executive director of MWRA. "We are taking
what was
once termed an 'open sewer and the dirtiest harbor in America' and
turning it
into an environmental gem that will sparkle for generations," said
MacDonald
as the Deer Island plant was reduced to a pile of rubble.
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