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South Bay incinerator site

Description: History of Boston incinerator siting issue. Controversy erupts when Senate president William Bulger makes known his opposition to South Bay location. Ray Flynn, Ray Dooley, Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1987

South End pumping station

Description: South End pumping station and sewage treatment plant. Equipment inside, pipes labelled hot water, cold water, vent. Pressure gauge, motor, flow chart. Control panel with switches and alarms. Sign on exterior: Pollution Abatement and Flood Control Facility, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1978

Spectacle Island

Description: Defenders of Spectacle Island hope to protect it as open space rather than turn it into sewage plant. It is already a repository for domestic trash and building debris. Crunchy garbage underfoot. Landfill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989

Springfield recycling center

Description: State recycling facility in Springfield processes paper, metal, glass to alleviate landfill burden. John DeVillars+Daniel Greenbaum inaugurate opening. Cans dumped f/truck,papers on conveyor belt,bins on curbs
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1990

Stoughton fights MWRA

Description: Stoughton hired consultants to speak against MWRA's locating sludge plant in their town. Pan of proposed site in industrial zone.Traffic on Stoughton roads. Sen. William Keating, Rep. Marjorie Clapprood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1989

Support for health care bill

Description: Support is rallied for Dukakis' health care for all bill being reshaped in Ways and Means Committee. William Bulger endorses it (ostensibly in exchange for Dukakis' support for his incinerator site).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1987

TOCN show tape

Description: Before news broadcast: Ted O'Brien advertises WGBH membership; advertisement for "Vietnam: Present Tense" program with Seth Rolbein; James Earl Jones advertises "Long Ago and Far Away" program; 1)Carmen fields reports on revelations on Sen. William Bulger's questionable investment in American Cablesystems Midwest with Harold Brown and Thomas Finnerty. 2) David Boeri debriefing on set on Bulger. 3) Sludge processing at Deer Island treatment plant turns sewage into compost and pelletized fertilizer; Paul Levy of MWRA and Michael Deland of EPA; incinerator in Lynn. 4) History of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, now landfill repository. Anchors Lydon and Fields. 5) Report on President George Bush Sr.'s tax campaign and Congressional leaders meeting about budget. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends budget restrictions, rather than taxes. 6) New childcare package is political olive branch between political parties. 7) National Urban League report on poverty and income conditions among black people. 8) Execution of serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida. 9) Pennsylvania native Barbara Harris chosen as first woman bishop in Anglican Communion, ordained by Boston Archdiocese.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989

The Liquidator, Inc.

Description: Interview about illegal chemical waste disposal at The Liquidator, Inc. in Dorchester. Lot of Liquidator enclosed by chain link fence around trailer, shipping containers, scrap metal and tire heaps, corroded barrels. Closure posting from Boston Board of Health. “Hazardous building” sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1979

The recycling solution

Description: Because of air pollution and ash residue concerns, trash disposal by incineration is falling from grace, in favor of recycling. Trash burning in furnace of RESCO plant in Millbury. Recycling bins in Wellesley.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/20/1988

Toxic dump Superfund settlement

Description: EPA settles local Superfund cleanup case, citing industry's responsibility to dispose of hazardous waste safely. Cannons Engineering toxic dump site in Bridgewater. Michael Deland announces penalties.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/03/1988