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Article: CLF and Boston Harbor.(Past, Present & Future)(Calendar)
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- Conservation Matters
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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June 7, 1983
The Conservation Law Foundation (ELF), represented by attorney Peter Shelley and Goodwin Procter LLP, sues the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) and the US. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for chronic, unauthorized, and massive discharges of partially treated, often raw sewage into Boston Harbor over more than a decade, violating the federal Clean Water Act.
December 1984
Under judicial threat of a Boston-wide development moratorium, the Massachusetts Legislature creates the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) to Lake over the MDC's water supply and sewage functions--a reform CLF has requested for some time. ...