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SAVE THE HARBOR

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

Save the Harbor

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

HARBOR POLLUTION

Description: 'SAVE THE HARBOR' EFFORT TO CLEAN UP POLLUTED BOSTON HARBOR. JAMES HOYTE. SLUDGE, SEWAGE, LOBSTER.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1986

Boston Harbor cleanup

Description: Water Resources Authority uses appeals to carry out Boston Harbor cleanup in a slower, cheaper fashion. EPA regional administrator Michael Deland.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/10/1987

Water and sewer bills

Description: New sewage treatment plants for Deer Island and Nut Island to aid harbor cleanup will cause water and sewer rates to soar. Washing hands in sink. Paul Levy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1987

Fines for slow harbor cleanup

Description: EPA announces huge potential fines for non- compliance with harbor cleanup schedule. MWRA vows to keep up with deadlines for improved sewage treatment. Michael Deland, James Hoyte, Paul Levy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1987

Milford sewage treatment plant

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

History of harbor cleanup

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

Harbor cleanup progress

Description: Lawsuit against state for failure to clean up harbor pollution is closed because of good faith plans to improve sewage treatment. MWRA. James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Michael Deland.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1988

Contaminated seafood from harbor

Description: EPA issues findings on contaminated seafood from Boston Harbor and Quincy Bay. Diseased fish and shellfish include clams, lobsters, flounder with viruses, tumors and PCBs. Rep. Brian Donnelly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1988

Envirolab & harbor pollution

Description: Reps. Susan Tucker and Mary Jeanette Murray take MWRA tour of Boston Harbor on Envirolab boat that measures pollution and examines marine life.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1988

Water waste

Description: Paul Levy of MWRA explains wasteful water usage is draining Quabbin Reservoir; urges conservation to safeguard harbor cleanup effort. Leaking pipes, toilet bowl draining after flush, drinking from fountain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/09/1988

Harbor cleanup officially begins

Description: Michael Dukakis, James Hoyte, Paul Levy, Ray Flynn, Michael Deland mark official start of Boston Harbor cleanup. Dukakis shovels inaugural dirt at Deer Island groundbreaking and rides on bow of Metro Police boat.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1988

Bush tours Boston Harbor

Description: George Bush tours Boston Harbor, purporting to be guardian of the environment, and criticizes Dukakis' lack of early attention to the polluted conditions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988

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

Quincy chosen for sludge plant

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

MWRA blasts bunkers

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

Hunting harbor polluters

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

Harbor oil tanker traffic

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

Peddocks Island

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

Central Artery obstacle

Description: State proposes to add dirt from Central Artery project to Spectacle Island landfill. EPA opposes dumping in harbor. Julie Belaga, Jane Garvey. Moving shot of Boston harbor with hazy skyline. Bulldozer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1990

Flynn on harbor cleanup

Description: Ray Flynn bobbing on boat appeals for federal funds, a share of the "peace dividend," for harbor cleanup.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1990

USS John F. Kennedy

Description: USS Kennedy berths at South Boston. Sailors disembark. Ray Flynn wears ship's cap. Greenpeace protests on rafts because battleship carries nuclear weapons. Coast Guard boat in harbor. David Scondras.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1990