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Which brings us to our beloved Charles River. For the past few months, the levels of fecal coliform bacteria in the river have been several hundreds of times the levels declared safe for boating by the EPA. There have been several incidents where boaters have reported getting sick...
Moraff, however, said he was not certain the EPA had the authority to call off the regatta...
Currently, the regional EPA is working to clean up the Charles through lawsuits against polluters and grants to local organizations and governments with the goal of making the Charles swimmable in 2005, Moraff said...
...combat the pollution problem, the EPA has filed enforcement actions against seven local governments: Cambridge, Brookline, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Needham and Milford...
...Brookline, the first city to receive an EPA action, the city's Public Works administration found that almost 300 housing units were dumping sewage into storm drains which empty into the river, Moraff said...