Description: MASSPIRG SAYS WOBURN TOXIC WASTE PART OF BIG WATER POLLUTION PROBLEM.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/31/1986
Description: GREENPEACE ACCUSES MONSANTO EVERETT OF CONTAMINATING GROUND WATER
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1986
Description: POLLUTION IN THE MUDDY RIVER IN BROOKLINE, OIL SLICK, RAIN DROPS ON WATER
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1984
Description: Marathon swimmer Paula Toomey trains in Boston Harbor despite its pollution; describes the smell and what she encounters in water.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1988
Description: Muddy River in the Emerald Necklace is severely polluted by sewage where it meets Route 9, but source of discharge is unknown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1987
Description: Grant Gear Co. is responsible for cleanup of PCBs dumped by previous tenant into Neponset River. Contaminated oil barrels. Route 1 in Norwood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/19/1989
Description: Woburn families go back to court against Beatrice Foods for contamination of drinking water, which presumably caused leukemia. They charge concealment of evidence and perjury. Jan Schlichtmann.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1989
Description: Man who started toxic waste dumping business in 1947 tells of nuclear, explosive and chemical barrels in Mass. Bay. Fisherman caught barrels in net, became ill from contents. Photos of dumping. Julie Belaga.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/26/1990
Description: Cuts from a press conference with Governor Francis Sargent at Cape Cod on oil spills along the cape. Several takes of reporter standup on the damage to the wildlife in Falmouth from the recent oil spill.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 09/1969
Description: Cleanup of no. 2 diesel oil spilled in Quincy Harbor. Suds on surface of water. Pump on dock. Jet-Line Services oil pollution control tank truck. Seagull on pier. Vacuum barge. Wide of bay. Estimated 28,000 gallons spilled. Interview with Mike Downey of Coast Guard Marine Safety Division says oil spills not unusual in state and talks about method of cleanup. Man in hip boots and rubber gloves wades in water with pitchfork. Brown residue visible near surface. Interview with fisherman Tom Galgana about secret clam flat and lobster grounds being damaged by spill for at least ten years.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/07/1979