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Congress allotted the money to the city as part of the National Clean Water Act, which passed over President Reagan's two-time veto last week. The money will be distributed next October and is portion of $2.4 billion slated for water clean-up throughout the country...
...member of the MWRA Robert Ciolek said the passage of the act represents a positive sign for Boston Taxpayers. "There are significantly more federal dollars here. Now we don't have to use as many rate payer dollars. It's important that we can ameliorate the impact of the clean-up on the rate payer," he said...
Boston officials said that they were glad the act finally passed. "In terms of large cities' harbors, it's between us and L.A. to say which is the dirtiest," Ciolek said. Federal funds will pay for about four percent of the clean-up, which will cost $2.5 billion, he said...
...that the MWRA will also construct a pipeline to take the purified sewage two to six miles out to sea. He said the agency will use other funds it receives to construct a system of piers that will transport the over 2,000 construction workers expected to join the clean-up out to the islands...
...Harbor clean-up project will not be completed until...