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Harbor sewage pipe

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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/01/1988

Lowell toxic waste site

Description: 8 Lowell families must relocate because their homes are on hazardous waste site. Rep. Chester Atkins says developers should have known not to build on contaminated soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1988

Medical trash on beaches

Description: Syringe on beach, other washed up medical refuse collected in plastic. Bins for infectious hospital waste. Supply room and operating room at BCH. trash
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1988

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

Prolerized car crushers

Description: Crushed cars and construction scrap become shredded metal, recycled by Prolerized Company, whose end-product is cited for contamination by PCBs and toxic materials.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/22/1988

Recycling in Boston

Description: Boston Food Co-op opens a recycling center to handle newspapers, and eventually glass. Stacks of old newspapers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/17/1988

Rowe Quarry and sludge disposal

Description: Rowe Quarry on Malden Saugus Revere border is site proposed by MWRA for landfill/ sludge disposal. Owner will fight eminent domain seizure of his property. Rep. William Reinstein, Sen. John Brennan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1988

Septage haulers protest

Description: Septage haulers picket and drive their pump trucks around State House to protest lack of approved disposal sites to treat sewage. Daniel Greenbaum, DEQE commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1988

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