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...back-room bargaining with the Massachusetts state legislature, Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity decided enough was enough. Last week the judge took drastic steps to force the legislature to clean up polluted, malodorous Boston Harbor or risk ending a $500 million-a-year building boom in the Boston metropolitan area. Garrity declared a moratorium on almost all new developments that would be connected to the ancient sewer system that serves Boston and 42 other cities and towns. The order covers all building applications dating back to June...
...judge's decision was an official response to a two-year-old suit brought by the city of Quincy against the metropolitan district commission and the Boston water and sewage commission. During the past six years, 70 of the Environmental Protection Agency's 129 so-called priority pollutants have been detected in the harbor. In the first five months of 1983 alone, some 700 million gal. of raw sewage was dumped into the murky waters. The state senate and, particularly, the house have dragged their feet on measures to solve the crisis. After the legislature last week postponed...
...plan, if implemented, would greatly increase chances for improvements in harbor cleanup and sewage treatment, said Metropolitan District Commission executive assistant Stephen P. Burgay...
...Metropolitan District Commission's Burgay called the receivership threat "wholly unwarranted," and said that the MDC should not be placed in receivership because it has fulfilled all obligations to the state...
Garrity could not be reached for comment.The harbor viewed from one of Boston's piers. A state judge who is hearing a pollution lawsuit against the Metropolitan District Commission may decide to place the Hub's sewer authority in receivership this afternoon...