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After four years of dramatic improvement in water quality and contaminant level, the Charles River received a "B" from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its annual study of water quality...
...fully intent on swimming in the Charles in 2005," said acting EPA New England regional administrator Ira Leighton at Friday's conference...
Wildlife along the river has improved since the clean up efforts began. This past year, porpoises and dolphins were seen in the Boston harbor and herons and other waterfowl are increasingly seen along the river's banks. The EPA predicts a record herring run up the river in the next few weeks...
...This really began back in the 1970s with the Clean Water Act, but the efforts of the Charles River Watershed Association show what a good nonprofit can do with some good science," said Roger Abele, a local EPA official who has been paddling on the Charles for the past 30 years...
...various areas don't reflect unanimity of opinion. By the way, we have pretty good arguments in there over how we ought to proceed, what kind of recommendations we ought to make on various issues. And also spending time at the table is Christie Todd Whitman, the EPA administrator, who I think is pretty well known for her views and her institutional responsibility and statutory responsibilities to implement our environmental laws. Same for Gail Norton, the Secretary of the Interior. I mean we are a diverse group that the President has pulled together in his Administration...