Thanks to YOU, Pressure Builds on MWRA to Eliminate CSOs
Nearly 350 community members joined CRWA, Save the Alewife Brook, Mystic River Watershed Association, and Green Cambridge on January 11 for a public meeting on plans to address combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in Boston’s waterways. Thanks to their support and the 2,200 of you who have signed our petition and submitted comments through the Cut The Crap campaign, pressure is building on MWRA to fully eliminate sewage discharges.
Save the Alewife Brook recently sent a letter to the MWRA Board of Directors, urging the full elimination of CSOs, which was signed by 300 people in just 48 hours.
Trustees of Reservations President & CEO Katie Theoharides (former EEA secretary and former MWRA board chair) sent this letter asserting the Trustees’ support for clean water.
The Sustainable Lexington Committee compiled comments and shared them with MWRA, noting that towns are doing their part to reduce stormwater pollution and that all entities within the watersheds should be held to consistent expectations to protect water quality.
The Greater Boston Plumbing Contractors Association sent a letter in support of the elimination of CSOs, reminding us, “the good news is that the workforce, expertise, and technology needed to solve this problem already exist.”
State Senators Cynthia Stone Creem and Rebecca L. Rausch, chairs of the climate and environmental committees, sent this letter, urging Secretary Tepper and the rest of the MWRA board to move toward full CSO elimination.
State Representatives Decker, Schwartz, Rogers, and many others signed this letter to the MWRA board in strong opposition to the proposal to allow CSOs to pollute the Charles forever.
