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Agency opens $100 million fund to remove lead water pipes

BOSTON – The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority on Monday announced a $100 million fund to provide interest-free loans that communities served by the agency can use to replace any remaining lead service pipes in their water systems. The program adds to treatment and other steps, including effective corrosion control, by the

Massachusetts

Boston Harbor, once dirtiest, now clean, agency tells judge

BOSTON – In 1982, former Quincy city Solicitor William Golden took a run along Wollaston Beach and came across bits of raw sewage in the sand, prompting him to take action. Quincy soon sued the Metropolitan District Commission and other agencies over discharges of untreated waste from Nut Island, at the