Description: World's longest waste tunnel to be built under Boston Harbor to carry treated sewage nine miles out to sea. Construction rig in water. Traffic inside Sumner Tunnel. Panorama of waterfront buildings.
Description: At MWRA meeting, Michael Dukakis announces beginning of building 9 1/2 mile harbor tunnel to carry sewage effluent from Deer Island treatment plant out to ocean. Construction equipment along the water.
Description: Derek Bok and Ray Flynn break ground at construction sites at Harvard business and medical schools. Stephen Coyle and Joseph Nigro congratulate Harvard for supporting construction industry.
Description: Harvard University medical area energy plant under construction; will produce electric power via diesel engines. Located on corner of Brookline Avenue and Francis Street near Mission Hill. Men on scaffolding laying bricks. Big buckets of mortar hoisted with crane. Wheelbarrow is lifted to platform. Signs “men working” and “no trespassing.” Giant claw deposits cement in dump truck. Contractors J.E. White, Dorel, Anastasi Brothers.
Description: Site of the razed Hotel Madison next to North Station, mostly cleared of rubble. Bulldozer dumping sand. Green line trolley on elevated track.
Description: Construction of interstate route I-190 in West Boylston. Interview about danger of silt getting into Wachusett Reservoir, contaminating drinking water supply for greater Boston. Dump trucks drive back and forth on site cleared for road.
Description: Callie Crossley interviews (?) Tremain (Hotel Restaurant Association?) regarding Mayor Kevin White's proposal to increase meals tax as means of closing budget deficient; interior and exterior shots of Copley Plaza Hotel; construction shots of building of Marriott Long Wharf Hotel.