Description: Conservation Law Foundation urges preparedness for risk of oil spill in Boston Harbor from tanker traffic. Pilot boat. File of Liberian tanker Pluto in fog.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1990
Description: History of Boston Harbor cleanup. Deer Island sewage treatment plant. Dead fish, clam flats, flushing toilet, rinsing paint brush, oily surface of water. Paul Levy, William Golden. Harbor on clear day with skyline and with dramatic clouds at sunset.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/18/1988
Description: Marco Kaltofen samples industrial outfall into Boston Harbor to identify corporate polluters and measure toxic compounds. MWRA might shift cleanup cost from residential customers to businesses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1990
Description: MWRA demolishes WWII bunkers on Deer Island as part of Boston Harbor cleanup project. Paul Levy wearing hard hat. Dynamite blasts. Explosion sound effects.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/27/1989
Description: Successful high tech sewage treatment plant in Milford is a model for Boston harbor cleanup. Rep. Joseph Connolly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1988
Description: Peddocks Island in Boston Harbor is proposed as prison site, but Ilyas Bhatti & John DeVillars want to preserve it for its park land, old brick buildings and fort.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1990
Description: MWRA board chooses Fore River shipyard in Quincy as sludge processing plant for Boston Harbor cleanup. Residents are up in arms. Footage of site.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1989
Description: SEVERE POLLUTION OF BOSTON HARBOR, OIL SLICK, SEWAGE OVERFLOW, DEAD FISH. William Golden, Ian Menzies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/08/1986
Description: Obstacles to Boston Harbor cleanup. B-roll of bad harbor conditions. Judge Paul Garrity, Michael Deland
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/10/1986
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