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B-roll from Dukakis presidential run

Description: B-roll from Dukakis 88 presidential campaign. Press conference on 911. With Cuomo. On high speed train. With Irish consul. On South Boston incinerator. On teen pregnancy. In Lowell. With Teddy Kollak.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Recycling in Somerville

Description: Recycling in Somerville. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/12/1976

Mission Hill housing project

Description: Exteriors of Mission Hill housing project. Trash strewn about. African American children playing in the parking lot and playing basketball. Steve Curwood interviews with residents including Betty Galloway, Dorothy Johnson, and a woman who doesn't want to give her name. They speak about the strike by BHA maintenance workers, and the past and current condition in the public housing, especially the amount of trash piling up. Accumulated rubbish in a vacant apartment and the chutes to the incinerators. Several takes of reporter standup. Exteriors of Exchange Building (53 State Street). Pedestrians.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977

Trash strike at BU

Description: Buildings and grounds workers strike at Boston University. AFL-CIO Local 254 picket signs. Trash has accumulated all over campus. Overflowing waste barrels, litter strewn on walkways. Custodial staff emerges from union meeting. Graffiti “Support the strike” and “No scabs.” Food debris spread on lawn. Garbage spilling out of dumpster. Trash bags piled around BFI receptacle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1978

Lowell Dump

Description: Lowell Dump (not hazardous waste). .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978

Lowell dump

Description: Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978

RESCO plant

Description: RESCO trash recycling plant
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1978

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

PCBs in New Bedford

Description: Landfill dump in New Bedford. Seagulls hover over trash. Contaminated with PCBs from industrial waste. Aerovox capacitor manufacturer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1979

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

Hazardous waste in Kingston

Description: Hazardous waste dump in Kingston. Barrels and drums half buried in cement oozing coagulated residue. Dented drums piled up and tumbling down slope. Stencilled letters "castor oil derivative." Bulldozer excavates pit. Interview with (?) Plymouth police chief Richard Nagle who got report of illegal dumping of 55-gallon chemical drums at several locations, source unknown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1980

East Woburn and Haverhill

Description: Exteriors of Haverhill City Hall. Environs of East Woburn neighborhood thought to be affected by hazardous waste contamination from nearby dumps. Sign on building for Housing for the Elderly. Washington Block building. Red ranch house of Anderson family. Children in summer clothes and dogs on residential street. Anderson boy on bicycle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981

Woburn hazardous waste

Description: Footage of a hazardous waste dump site in Woburn. Building surrounded by trees, close-up of building door with lock; pans over grassy area around building. Footage of worn down old chemical plant and train tracks running by it; "POISON" sign hanging from corrugated metal building; field and buildings behind chain link fence; freight train with lumber passes by. Piles of barrels behind chain link fence. Barbed wire fence stretches length of railway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981

Brookline, MA Garbage

Description: Brookline, MA Garbage Collection, Trash Fees. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1981

North Andover Dump

Description: North Andover Trash Dump Garage. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1982

Woburn toxic waste and leukemia

Description: Kirby Perkins' report for channel 5 news on the relationship of Woburn toxic waste dumps to the elevated incidence of childhood leukemia in nearby neighborhoods. Jimmy Anderson and mother.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Description: NORTH DARTMOUTH HAZARDOUS WASTE DUMP, PCBS, TRACTORS, CRANES, WORKERS. SUPERFUND CLEANUP
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/04/1984

Grace industrial waste site

Description: W.R. Grace industrial dump site in North Cambridge near Alewife. Ed Cyr speaks on behalf of residents concerned about toxic waste deposited during earlier manufacturing use.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1985

INCINERATOR

Description: OLD BOSTON INCINERATOR PLANT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1985

Incinerator & Mass Fair Share

Description: Mass Fair Share opposes planned incinerator for South Bay because of resulting pollution. Proposes instead waste-to-energy conversion of trash as environmentally sound.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1986

Flynn & Dukakis incinerator feud

Description: Ray Flynn criticizes Dukakis for non-support of South Bay incinerator site. Dukakis wants to build prison there; prefers trash recycling plant to appease environmentalists.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1986

ILLEGAL TRASH DUMPING

Description: ROXBURY RESIDENTS PROTEST ILLEGAL TRASH DUMPING NEAR ORCHARD PARK HOUSING PROJECT. BRUCE BOLLING.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1987

Saugus RESCO plant

Description: Saugus RESCO incinerator produces much ash in air, soil, and residue on nearby houses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1987

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

Bulger & Flynn on incinerator site

Description: Ray Flynn is confronted by William Bulger at press conference on controversial South Bay site for proposed incinerator.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1987

Bulger & incinerator site controversy

Description: Senate President William Bulger will not divulge his perfect alternative site for proposed incinerator.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/28/1987

Incinerator site controversy

Description: Bulger and Flynn correspond coolly on incinerator site. Citizens advisory committee on solid waste disposal arrive at no consensus either.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1987

Weston quarry for incinerator?

Description: Sen. William Bulger proposes Weston quarry for incinerator site. Community reax. trash collection.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/17/1987

Sewage treatment plant

Description: Inadequately treated sewage pollutes Boston Harbor. Paul Garrity wants Spectacle Island to be conservation land, not sludge plant. Rep. Marjorie Clapprood, Rep. Paul Harold.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/22/1987

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

Update on incinerator siting

Description: Michael Dukakis hedges on South Bay incinerator site, undergoing environmental impact review. (Perceived as political trade with Senate president Bulger for his support of health care for all bill.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1987

Cleaning up autumn leaves

Description: Annual autumnal ritual of leaf removal in Brookline, where raking into curbside piles and burning are illegal. Tons of leaves taken to leaf dump. landfill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1987

Dukakis' integrity scrutinized

Description: As Dukakis signs low-level radioactive waste disposal bill, he is questioned on resignation of former education advisor G. Indelicato from college presidency & on land deal for New Braintree prison.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1987

Greenpeace demonstration

Description: Greenpeace tries to deliver barrels of ash residue (which they consider hazardous waste) from Saugus RESCO incinerator to regional EPA office. Police scuffle at elevator in federal building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/11/1987

Flynn & Dukakis meet on incinerator

Description: Gov. Dukakis meets with Ray Flynn to discuss their disagreement over incinerator and harbor cleanup, but they reach no compromise.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/23/1987

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yankee Rowe nuclear plant

Description: Rowe nuclear power plant has good safety record and community relations, but no solution for waste. Radiation meter. Refueling film. Yankee Atomic Electric grounds. Rowe Town Hall, rural scene, dam.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/29/1988

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

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

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

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

Trash collection

Description: Trash collection on Beacon Hill. Haulers toss plastic garbage bags onto rubbish truck, which compacts them. Refuse barrels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/20/1988

Walpole sludge disposal site

Description: Paul Levy of MWRA announces Walpole as site for sewage treatment plant. Citizens and officials complain, citing existing burden of four area prisons. Sen. Arthur Lewis, Rep. Frank Woodward
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1988

Walpole fights MWRA

Description: Walpole residents oppose selection of their town as site for solid waste disposal. They plan to fight the MWRA sewage landfill proposal. Paul Levy. B-roll of town center, roads, houses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1989

Walpole protests landfill

Description: Walpole residents protest in front of State House against siting grit landfill in their town. Meanwhile at board meeting, MWRA votes to approve the site. Sewage disposal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1989