Word: watered
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After the 1972 Clean Water Act expired in 1985, efforts began to pass a second, said Ciolek, who worked with the Mayor's office to lobby for the act. But Reagan opposed the power and authority in spending the act would give federal agencies. Last year, he vetoed the act by allowing it to die without his signature, and he formally vetoed it again last month...
...only is sewage that is only halfway purified purposely poured into the Harbor, but, during rainstorms, poisonous sewage accidentally runs into the water, a phenomenon known as combined sewage overflow. This, in addition to the toxicants that over 6,000 industries dump into the Harbor and its tributaries each year, has tainted the water and damaged the Harbor's sea life...
According to Di Natale, the toxicants have polluted over 75 percent of the Harbor's clam flats, and the water's shellfish and groundfish populations have developed fin disorders and malignant tumors...
Ciolek said that although some Boston beaches are open in the summer, it is often unsafe to swim in the Harbor's water, especially after rainstorms...
Part of the federally received funds will be used to construct a tunnel 300 feet below the Harbor through which sewage can be channeled to Deer Island, where a new plant will remove 90 percent of the impurities from the water. Presently, most sewage goes to Nut Island where only 50 percent of the impurities are removed, Di Natale said...