Word: harborers
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...result, many types of shrimp fishing had been prohibited by 1970 because of the tendency of the shellfish to accumulate toxins. The harbor's famous lobster population was all but decimated. The Charles, Chelsea, Mystic, and Neponset River estuaries--the portions of the rivers where fresh and salt water converge--were also nearly devoid of the diverse wildlife that is typical of such areas...
Schools of fish, birds, and smaller marine organisms vanished in the wake of solid waste matter and oxygen-depleting pollution in the water. Normally bluish-green, relatively transparent 30-feet deep harbor water had been turned murky and brown...
...founding of the MWRA was in part an attempt to avoid the quick fix that had characterized Boston's cleanup efforts up to that point and permanently cure the harbor's sewage problems...
Only now, upon the completion of that 13-year plan, are the city and the communities along the harbor seeing the results of the subsequent years of cleanup efforts...
...round of additions, the Deer Island facility was upgraded to secondarily treat all wastewater--thus fulfilling one of the Clean Water Act's original mandates--to remove 85 percent of carbonaceous oxygen-depleting matter, bacteria and suspended solids before re-releasing the treated water through outfall pipes into Boston Harbor...