Largely in response to the Quincy lawsuit, the Massachusetts Legislature in 1985 created the MWRA, which functions as an independent authority with the power to set and raise water and treatment rates, as well as to direct and execute infrastructure projects as needed.
The 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.
That same year, however the EPA and Department of Justice (DOJ) filed suit against the MWRA for violations of the Clean Water Act.
The fallout from that lawsuit?
A mandate from Federal District Court Judge A. David Mazzone for the construction of new primary and secondary water treatment plans over a 13-year period.
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.
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