Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant
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The Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant (also known as Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant) run and operated by The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is located on Deer Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands in Boston Harbor. The water treatment plant cost over 3.8 billion dollars[citation needed] making it the seventeenth most expensive object ever constructed.[citation needed] The plant began operating in 1995.[1]
Deer Island is the second largest sewage treatment plant in the United States.[2] The plant is a key part of the program to protect Boston Harbor against pollution from sewer systems in eastern Massachusetts, mandated by a 1984 federal court ruling by Judge Paul G. Garrity in a case brought under the Clean Water Act.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "A History of the Sewer System" Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
- ^ "Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant". Center for Land Use Interpretation
- ^ Steindorf, Sara, "Professor touts Boston Harbor cleanup as victory of judiciary", Harvard Law School News, May 5, 2005
