MWRA Introduces Proposal to Eliminate CSOs in the Charles River— Read More in the Beacon Hill Times
Last week, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and the Cities of Cambridge and Somerville hosted a public meeting to share potential project concepts that would eliminate Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) from polluting the Charles River, the Mystic River, and Alewife Brook. MWRA, Cambridge, and Somerville are required to carry out an extensive updated CSO planning effort to address the ongoing challenge of raw and partially treated sewage being dumped into Boston’s rivers during heavy rain. We were pleased to read about this public meeting in the Beacon Hill Times, which quoted CRWA’s senior stormwater program manager Max Rome, “This investment will pay dividends for future generations as climate change increases the imperative for access to public swimming areas, making good on the promises of the 1972 Clean Water Act and the Clean Charles Initiative of 2005.”
