Judge A. David Mazzone's
Chamber Papers on the
Boston Harbor Clean Up Case, 1985-2005

24 record cartons, 4 document cases.

Processed: January, 2004
By: Jennifer Matz
Accession Number: 102-01
Collection Number: Archives 105

Table of Contents
  1. Provenance
  2. Biographical Note
  3. Historical Note
  4. Scope and Content
  5. Series Description (overview)
  6. Content/ Container List
  7. Detailed Series Description
    • Manuscripts
    • video material
  8. Links

PROVENANCE

    U.S. Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone (District- MA) donated his papers pertaining to the Boston Harbor Cleanup Case to the University of Massachusetts Boston on May 16, 2001.

    In August, 2003 additional materials were acquired from Judge Mazzone in the form of videotapes.

    In October, 2003, additional materials in the form of a DVD set and a CD-Rom were acquired from Mary Lydon, Librarian & Records Manager, at the MWRA Record Center at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

    In February, 2004, additional compliance reports (Numbers 183-188) were acquired from Judge Mazzone.

    In 2005, supplementary materials (videotaped interviews and transcripts of those interviews, conducted by Jenni Matz), were added to the collection.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Judge A. David Mazzone

   Judge A. David Mazzone was a senior US District Judge in Massachusetts.
Born: June 3, 1928 in Everett, MA
Died: October 25, 2004 in Boston, MA.
Presided over this case: 1985 - 2004 (this case still open at time of processing)
Education: B.A Harvard Univ., 1950. JD De Paul Univ., 1957.
Career Note:
     1961-65, Asst. District Attorney, Middelsex County, Massachusetts.
     1965, Asst. U.S. Attorney, Massachusetts.
     1965-75, Partner, Moulton, Looney and Mazzone, Boston
     1975-78, Associate Justice, Superior Court, Boston
     1978- 2004, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Boston, Mass.

HISTORICAL NOTE:

   Case No: Civil Action 85-0489-MA: United States of America (Plaintiff) Vs. Metropolitan District Commission, et al (Defendants)
 And
   Civil Action 83-1614-MA : Conservation Law Foundation of New England, Inc., (Plaintiff) Vs. Metropolitan District Commission, et al (Defendants)

   The Boston Harbor Cleanup Case was a landmark case for Massachusetts. The initial order and subsequent timetable of U.S. Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone set into play one of the largest public works projects ever undertaken in New England at a total cost of over $3.8 billion. It resulted in the construction of a new primary wastewater treatment center at Deer Island ("the Boston Harbor Treatment Plant"), facilities at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy to process sewage sludge, a tunnel from Nut Island to Deer Island, and a 9.5 mile outfall tunnel to discharge treated effluent offshore in Massachusetts Bay. These four major construction projects were designed to deal with the problem of untreated sewage water which had been dumped into Boston Harbor for decades. The case was originally filed in three separate lawsuits.

   The town of Quincy filed a suit against the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), an authority created by the Mass. legislature in 1893, and the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, on December 17, 1982, on the grounds that the beaches and waters of Boston Harbor were polluted, by the illegal dumping of an estimated 3.5 billion gallons of pollutants in that year alone. The suit was heard by Judge Paul G. Garrity of the Massachusetts Superior Court. A timetable for the Boston cleanup was attempted. The next year, it was determined that the MDC alone would be liable for the cleanup.

   On June 7, 1983, the Conservation Law Fund (CLF) filed a suit against the MDC and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for massive discharge of untreated sewage into Boston Harbor. The CLF blamed the MDC, with acquiescence from the EPA, for violating the 1972 Clean Water Act of Congress. The EPA claimed that the MDC should be the sole defendant in this case.

   The EPA, under new Regional Administrator Michael Deland, also filed its own suit, as a plaintiff, against the MDC for failure to comply with the Clean Water Act.

   On March 7, 1984, Judge Mazzone stayed proceedings for the CLF case, due to the existence of the Quincy case already pending in the Mass. Superior Court. Mazzone deferred to Judge Garrity who was still ruling on the Quincy case, and who issued an ultimatum in December 1984 warning the Legislature that he would enter a clean-up order unless lawmakers devised a concrete plan to clean the polluted harbor.

   In April of 1984, then Governor Michael Dukakis (Mass.) proposed a bill in the Mass. legislature which would form a new, autonomous water and sewage authority in Mass. This authority, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) would assume responsibility for the MDC's sewage department, and thereby also assume liability as the defendant in the legal case. When MDC Commissioner William Geary conceded that the MDC did not have the financial or personnel backing appropriate to clean up the Harbor, the Mass. legistlature passed the bill creating the MWRA in December 1984. Increased sewage rates would be paid by the forty-three member communities in Mass. to help offset the cost of the cleanup.

  On January 31, 1985, the United States filed a separate suit at the request of the Administrator of the EPA against the MDC, MWRA, and the Commonwealth of Massachussetts, and the Boston Water and Sewage Comission seeking to make the cleanup a non-voluntary court-ordered mandate.

On May 22,1985, U.S. District Judge Mazzone denied a further stay in the CLF case, and denied a motion to stay the EPA case, consolidating the two cases, and taking it out of the state’s jurisdiction. His reasons were that the state had not effectively been able to adhere to the voluntary cleanup schedule and the cessation of sludge dumping into the harbor. He effectively combined all three lawsuits by agreeing to hear the CLF and EPA’s cases against the MDC, and allowed the Town of Quincy (and later the Town of Winthrop) leave to “interfere” in this new case as a plaintiff. This decision cleared up procedural and legal obstacles that for months had halted any progress to be made on the cleanup of the harbor.

In July 1985, the MWRA assumed the sewage tasks of the MDC, and by September 1985, the MWRA was named in the lawsuit as the sole liable party, as successor to the MDC.

In December 1985, Judge Mazzone set forth his ruling as to the first Schedule for the cleanup, which was to be adhered to by the MWRA. By May 1986, this Schedule One was amended to include a plan to complete a new primary treatment plant by 1995, and a secondary plant by 1999. The location of these sites was still to be determined, and would cause much legal wrangling and public dissent. Deadlines were pushed for technical and legal reasons. The cleanup was expected to take eleven years, but would go on for at more than twenty, costing over $3.8 billion. In that time sewage stopped being dumped into the harbor, two brand-new primary and secondary treatment plants went online, a 9.5 mile outfall tunnel was completed, all contributing to making Boston Harbor cleaner. Still, this project was one of the largest public works projects to come in on time, and under budget.

In October, 2004, Judge Mazzone passed away. On September 9, 2004 he had the case transferred to Judge Richard G. Stearns, who now presides.

This case is still not closed, with work by the MWRA still ongoing at the time this collection was processed.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

   The collection consists of three series.

1) The first series consists of the chamber papers of Judge Mazzone spanning the course of his court orders dealing with this case. These include just one series, which is broken down month by month, from December, 1985 to December, 2000, and then Quarterly Reports from January 2001, to October, 2003. The folders correspond to the monthly/quarterly compliance orders written by the Judge. Judge Mazzone ordered this case to have specific deadlines and project milestones which the parties were required to report on once a month. This is a record of those reports. There are a total of 188 orders that were filed at the time the collection was received.

   The monthly reports include (almost invariably) the MWRA's compliance report, the report of the appointed Compliance Monitor (Anne O. Phillips), the response of the party representing the U.S (if any), and the Judge's Order on these reports and the progress of the cleanup efforts. There are copies of docketed court papers as well as drafts, and related materials. The Order of the Judge was generally the first document in the folder, and the rest of the materials were arranged in reverse-chronological order. For the purpose of consistency, all items have been re-foldered in chronological order. The judge's opinion includes a summary of facts stated in all the filed reports, and thus offers a succinct history of that particular's month's progress and setbacks. Each report chronicles the obstacles that were faced, including logistical, financial, environmental, and technical problems for each month.

   Additionally, there are sporadic reports from outside experts and consultants, bids from various contractors, detailed plans from contractors, and reports from environmental and engineering parties involved over the course of the case. These are generally included in the MWRA reports as "Exhibits". There are letters to and from the Judge (mostly dealing with concern over site selection, or political/environmental implications for various construction projects), drawings, photographs, graphic schematics, news clippings, and submissions from private citizens and citizen watch groups.

  Notably, some documents found here deal with the problems concerning the relocation of the Deer Island Correctional Facility, the safety of the harbor whales and wildlife, the location of the dumping site near the township of Winthrop, the relocation of the correctional facility on Deer Island, US Senate bills relating to this case, the taxpayer response to increasing sewage bills, the construction of the 9.5 Mile outfall pipe, the problem of Combined Sewage Overflow, and the safety and swimmability of the beaches in South Boston.

Originally there were 188 folders corresponding to 188 court orders. These have been re-foldered into 320 new folders each of which preserves the number of that compliance order. Additional orders were later added, and the orders chronicle the scope of Mazzone's jurisdiction on the case from 1985-2004, totaling 193 orders.

2) The second series of this collection consists of audio-visual materials.

   There is a DVD compilation, produced by the MWRA in a two-volume set, "Classic Video Images of the Boston Harbor Project 1989-2002". There is a CD-Rom, "MWRA Best of Boston Harbor Project Images" consisting of over a hundred photo stills taken from among the 30,000 slides at the MWRA Record Center that were part of the scheduled compliance orders. Highlights include the "Boston Harbor Project Videos", three of which were produced by the MWRA to explain the history and purpose of the Boston Harbor Project (BHP).

   Additionally, there are approximately 150 videotapes in this collection. These are on varying formats of ? (U-matic) videotape, BetaSP video, and VHS video.

   These tapes range greatly in content, quality, and style. There are educational videos, explaining how water travels from the rain to the sewer. There are highly technical narratives, explaining details of CSO or of operating procedures. There are a few tapes geared toward workers, rehearsing emergency procedures. There are public service announcements put out by the MWRA to attract investors, showing how valuable a commodity the project will be. There are public meetings, showing the point of view of the ratepayers and various protesters. There are numerous newscasts, covering the press attention to the project from the 1980s onward. And there are the "Quarterlies" -project management contract requirements which capture various stages of construction. The earliest footage seems to be from 1986. Not all of it is dated.

   In all, there were three "Boston Harbor Project" videos that sample the bulk of the footage and edit it into scripted, narrated segments. The final tape (#3) even features a short clip of Judge Mazzone. This tape explains again the history of the project from the troubled days of the MDC through the foreseeable completion of the project. The BHP videos are also on the DVD set.

Among the highlights on the videos:
  • Footage of Deer Island before construction began (1988).
  • News footage chronicling the various protests to the BHP over the years, the environmental & political groups opposed to it.
  • News coverage over issues (length of tunnel, location of treatment plants, CSO, technical problems, political backlash).
  • Important figures such as Paul Levy, Peter Shelley, Doug MacDonald, Richard Fox, and Judge Mazzone on-camera.
  • Footage of the right whale and the harbor seals again in the harbor.
  • People swimming again in the harbor in the 1990s.
  • Footage of the groundbreaking events (first shovel of dirt thrown).
  • President Bush's anti-Dukakis, anti-harbor political commercial which many say swayed the presidential election.
  • Graphic elements showing the planning of such a huge construction project in maps and animatics.
  • On-camera narration by engineers and advisors who explain first-hand what their jobs on the project are and how they do them.
  • Visual progress from the beginning of the project (1988) through the completion of the secondary treatment plants.
  • Song produced about the BHP "Clean Up Boston Harbor!/ Love that Dirty Water!"

3) The third series of this collection consists of supplementary materials.

   This series includes material created by the Archivist in the course of organizing the collection and material created providing supplementary information. The material includes oral history, videotaped interviews with Judge Mazzone and others involved in the case.

Additional records for this case:
The complete case files will be found at the National Archives in Waltham, MA once the case is closed. Until then, they are located at the U.S. Federal District Courthouse in Boston. http://www.mad.uscourts.gov/default2.html

Series Description Note:

Series 1: Paper Documentation
       The paper documents are arranged chronologically by month.
There were 193 original folders, in16 record cartons. There are now 318 folders, in 24 record cartons and four document cases. The original integrity of each folder has been maintained, but re-arranged in chronological order. Each folder varies in its volume and content.

Contents most generally include:

  1. The MWRA Monthly Compliance Report
     a. Items on the schedule set forth by the court that were not completed.
     b. Items on the schedule that were completed.
     c. Additional information may include some of the following;
       i. Bids from contractors
       ii. Reports from private experts
       iii. Findings of researchers, engineers, committees, the Board of Directors, consultants.
       iv. Requests for extensions or delays in the schedule and reasons for this.
       v. Reports, books, binders from independent parties with detailed graphic descriptions of the project.
       vi. Budget reports
  2. Responses, if any, from the other parties in the Case.
  3. The Report of the Compliance Monitor, Anne Phillips
     a. Items on the Schedule not completed and her explanation
     b. Items on the Schedule that were completed and her explanation
     c. A listing of the parties (with addresses) who received the report
  4. Judge Mazzone’s monthly Order
     a. Opinion on the reports received
     b. Recommendations or Orders of the court based on these findings
     c. Occasional handwritten notes or drafts.

Series II: Audio-Visual materials
       The videos came in nine cases, which came with their own packing lists. They are not in consecutive order. The tapes had been divided into groupings and these original groupings are intact. There are a total of 106 tapes of varying formats and lengths, spanning the years 1986-2001, in thirteen new boxes.

The groupings are;
   NP 1-14 Non- MWRA Project Videos. These videos vary in quality and subject matter from a short about radial steam engines to a home video shot by a construction worker.

   OA- 1-51 Off-Air Dubs. These were taped by various vendors (VMS, Playback, or home-recordings) who recorded on-air broadcasts from news sources (such as WBZ-TV in Boston) that aired news stories dealing in some way with the BHP.

   PV 1-103 Project Videos. These are videos produced primarily by Regina Villa Associates for MWRA detailing various elements of construction, such as the explosions, interim sludge processing, MWRA bond commercials, press releases, et cetera from 1986- 2002.

   QU 1-48 Quartlerlies. These quarterly updated trace the visual history of various stages of the project from 1989-2000. They were four shot each year by MWRA as part of the documented evidence of this case.
Some are narrated by Resident Engineers.

Series III: Supplementary Materials
   In August, 2004 the Project Archivist, Jenni Matz, conducted and videotaped an interview with Judge A. David Mazzone at length about his recollections about this case.

   In October, 2004, Judge A. David Mazzone passed away. Following his death, his colleagues on the case were approached by the Archivist to participate in a series of interviews about his role in the Boston Harbor Cleanup, which were then edited into a film shown at an Urban Harbors Institute Symposium (May 23, 2005).

   The full transcripts, and digital videos of these interviews were added to this collection in Spring, 2005.

   The Interviews are available on VHS format for viewing, by appointment.

   The Transcripts are available for reading in the Archive, by appointment, and are also accessible online at www.uhi.umb.edu/mazzone.

Videotaped Interviews:
  • Judge A. David Mazzone, on August 24, 2004.
  • Paul Levy, Former Executive Director, MWRA on February 17, 2005.
  • William Golden, Former City Solicitor for Quincy and Former State Senator, on February 18, 2005.
  • John DeVillars, Former Secretary of Environmental Affairs and Former Administrator, EPA Region 1, on February 24, 2005.
  • Douglas Foy, Former President, Conservation Law Foundation, on February 24, 2005.
  • Michael Dukakis, Former State Governor, on March 15, 2005.
  • Beth Nicholson, Chairperson, Save the Harbor Save the Bay, on May 9, 2005.
  • Vivien Li, Executive Director, Boston Harbor Association on May 9, 2005.
  • Michael Deland, Former Administrator, EPA Region 1, on May 11, 2005.

CONTENTS LIST  of Collection 102:

Box #               Folder Range    Compliance Order Range         Date Range

 

1                      1-32                             1-14                             1/15/86- 3/5/87

2                      33-55                           15-22                           2/13/87- 10/26/87

3                      56-83                           23-32                           10/8/87- 8/29/88

4                      84-113                         33-53                           9/15/88- 5/30/90

5                      114- 139                      54-68                           5/11/90- 8/28/91

6                      140-165                       69-84                           9/4/91- 12/28/92

7                      166-188                       84-97                           1/19/93- 1/28/94

8                      184-213                       98-115                         2/15/94- 7/26/95

9                      214-241                       115-131                       7/26/95- 11/25/96

10                    242-266                       132-155                       12/16/96- 11/30/98

11                    267-291                       156-177                       11/4/98- 8/15/00

12                   292-318                       178-193                       9/15/00- 10/1/04

13                    NP 1-14                      Videos

    DVD #1: Classic Video Images of the Boston Harbor Project 1989-2002, Volume I

    DVD #2: Classic Video Images of the Boston Harbor Project 1989-2002, Volume II

    CD-ROM: The Best Images of the Boston Harbor Project, 1989-2002.

14                    OA 1-12                      Videos

15                    OA 13-25                    Videos

16                    OA-26-51                   Videos

17                    PV 1-25                       Videos

18                    PV 26-37                     Videos

19                    PV 38-48                     Videos

20                    PV 51-75                     Videos

21                    PV 76-103                   Videos

22                    QU 1-12                      Videos

23                    QU 13-25                    Videos

24                    QU 26-38                    Videos

25                    QU 39-47                    Videos

26                                                        Videos                               VHS Viewing copies of Interviews by Jenni Matz. Tapes: Michael Deland, John DeVillars, Mike Dukakis, Douglas Foy, William Golden, Paul Levy, Senator Kennedy, Vivien Li, Judge Mazzone, Beth Nicholson.

27                                                        DV masters                       Master tapes of Interviews

28                                                        Transcripts                       Transcripts of Interviews by Jenni Matz with: Michael Deland, John DeVillars, Mike Dukakis, Douglas Foy, William Golden, Paul Levy, Senator Kennedy, Vivien Li, Judge Mazzone, Beth Nicholson.
 

Series 1: Detailed Description
*This section is currently under construction. Please check back for updates*

Folder 1a: The case begins with the First Memorandum and Order from Judge Mazzone, dated by the Court September 5, 1985, in which he details the historic importance of the Boston Harbor: “the site of the Boston Tea Party… the home port for what is now the oldest ship still commissioned in the United States Navy whose copper fittings were hammered by Paul Revere.” He describes the deterioration and pollution of the harbor over the past “several decades” and the ensuing case brought forth by the United States and the Conservation Law Foundation against the MDC to clean up the harbor. In this first memorandum, the Judge details the historical circumstances of the many lawsuits and his decisions of stay over them until 1985, when he agreed to hear the cases in the Federal Court and consolidate them into one case. He further explains the “Factual Background” of the pollution problems in 1976, outlining how the Deer and Nut Island Treatment facilities were the only ones in Boston, and we offered no secondary (only primary) treatment of sewage and allows for sludge to be discharged into the Harbor.
Mazzone explains why he is taking jurisdiction over the case from the Superior Court: “I simply do not have any adequate assurance that the community’s federally guaranteed right to a clean harbor will be protected if the parties are left to their own devices.”
He also explains why he is naming the MWRA the sole defender as successor of the MDC: “I am compelled to find that the MWRA is indeed a reincarnation of the MDC, and is therefore liable for its predecessor’s liabilities.” The EPA is now a plaintiff, not a defendant in this case (he dismisses the charges against them).
He ends on a positive note, stating that the Harbor is a “powerful ecological system which is capable of reconstructing itself as long as the system is not overloaded.” He states that the “law secures to the people the right to a clean harbor.”
He predicts that the task at hand will “entail many unpopular decisions”, being costly, and “politically sensitive.” He expresses faith that the MWRA will carry out its tasks better than the MDC.

Folder 1: January, 1986. Compliance Report 1. Judge’s Schedule One Compliance Order, dated February 7, 1986. The Judge states here that the “purpose of these orders will be to record the efforts and progress in meeting the deadlines set out in Schedule One”.
The background of the case is reiterated here, potential problems with compliance with schedule, and motion to modify schedule by the MWRA is denied.
A status report of scheduled activities for December, 1985 is included as Exhibit A, and certified by Michael Gritzuk, Executive Director of the MWRA. Plans for a secondary treatment plant review process completed, findings to come in next report. New Residuals Management Program Manager of MWRA- Melanie Thomas writes affidavit in MWRA’s motion to amend Schedule 1. Says MWRA cannot comply (for technical reasons) with processing 3 dry tons of sludge/day, citing the experimental nature of the Deer Island Pilot Project and unrealistic expectations. The Judge sees no reason to modify the existing schedule, as MWRA requests, denying their motion to modify. Anne Crocker Phillips is to be the Compliance Monitor reporting on the progress of the MWRA to the court.
Judge discusses why he is not inclined to set a long-term deadline for the entire cleanup project.Discusses pilot project, in 1984, to test alternate ways to dispose of the sludge (“Deer Island Pilot Composting Program”) and reiterates that the MWRA must comply and treat at least 3 dry tons of sludge per day in keeping with the court order.

Series II: Audio Visual Documentation

BOSTON HARBOR PROJECT
VIDEO LIBRARY

Videotapes associated with the Boston Harbor Cleanup Project
Received from Judge David A. Mazzone Summer, 2003

BOX    LABEL                                   CONTENT                             vhs                  ¾          beta  

Non- MWRA Project Videos   NP 1-14                     

      VHS          (twelve)

¾   (three)                                                                                12                    3                                                         

Off-Air Dubs                                        OA- 1-25                   

VHS  (Eighteen – includes 5 that are duplicates)                       

¾ (Twelve) Poor Quality! (dubbed from vhs)                           18                    12

Off-Air Dubs                                        OA 26-51                   

            VHS (twenty-four)

Beta (Five)                                                                               24                    0                              5

Project Videos                                     PV 1-25                      

            ¾ (twenty-four)

Beta (Nine)                                                                              0                      18 (+ 6 missing)      1

Project Videos                                     PV 26-50                    

            ¾ (Nineteen)

Beta (Two)                                                                               0                      19 (+4 missing)      2

Project Videos                                     PV 51-75                    

            ¾ (five)

Beta (Ten)                                                                                1                      5 (2 missing?)         10

Project Videos                                     PV 76-103                  

Beta (Nineteen)                                                                        0                      0                            19

Quartlerlies                                           QU 1-25                     

            ¾ (twenty-five)                                                             0                      25                            0

Quartlerlies                                           QU 26-48                                          

Beta (Twenty-Four) (1 missing)                                                0                      0                             24

Total Boxes: 13

Total VHS tapes:       55                               

Total Beta tapes:       37                   

Total ¾ Tapes:           106


Detailed Log

 

Box #13:

MWRA NON-PROJECT VIDEOS NP 1-14

12 that are VHS

13 that are ¾

 

         NP-1               VHS. Narrated by tape operator. Deer Island BEFORE any construction.
            July, 1988.

         NP-2               VHS. Narrated history of Deer Island/ Fort Dawes by camera operator. 1988

NP-3               3/4. “Clean the Beaches” on H2O tv (Australian) Shows how-to of water treatment
             Lots of underwater shots.

NP-4               ¾ All about tunnel boring machines. Natural sound.

NP-4               VHS. Dub of above. All about tunnel boring machines. Natural sound.

NP-5               ¾ narrated history of MWRA and the pollution problem by Chaman. Details about the
             construction process and effluent tunnel plans.

NP-6               VHS. Workers on boat in harbor in diving apparatus/ underwater.

NP-7               VHS. Save the radial steam engine video. 1991. history of steam engines.

NP-8               VHS. ROCSAW. 11/89

NP-9               VHS.  Cable laying. Poor quality. 12/89

NP-10             VHS.   Excavation and tunneling. 8/89

NP-11             VHS.   More excavation and men in tunnels. 9/89

NP-12             VHS.  In French. Shots of Boston in 1995. story of sewage. Men ride inside
             tunnels. 4/95

NP-13             VHS. Port de Boston. –canadian broadcasting Corp.

NP-14             VHS. H2O tv animated story of wastewater (primary and secondary) hosted by Dino
             Saurus (for kids?). 1995.

 

 

Box #14:

OFF- AIR DUBS   OA 1-12

12 that are ¾

 

OA 1-12 are ¾ tapes, and dubs of ¾ or VHS from vendors VMS, Playback, or home-recorded. Most are news- stories.              Quality not very good.

Most are 3rd generation. Each tape has several shows.

OA 13-25 are VHS. (put in next Box)

OA 1A, OA -8 part 9, OA-4 part 14 and part 2 are VHS duplicates from ¾. Two copies of OA-18.
             (also put in next box, box #4)

OA-1               ¾. 1986-1989. 6/3/86. Cable TV: publiuc meeting on proposed diversion of CT river.
             WBZ shipyard purchased by MWRA 1987. 1988.

“water conservation PSA’s” by century III prods. 1988. Cable TV’s “Focus on the Hill” intvw with
             Paul Levy. 1988. Local coverage BHP groundbreaking.

1988 WBZ Newton Watermain break. 1989. Cable TV public meeting on Quincy. WCVB 1989.
             Emergency Repairs.1989 Drought story. 1989. WNEV

Aqueduct leaks. Water Conservation PSA. Sludge-Follow Up. Bunker Demolition. Industrial Toxic
             Wastes. Labor agreements with BHP. Howie Carr at MWRA.

OA-2               ¾. 1990-1991. Protest at White House, 1990. Jesse Jackson & Boston Harbor.
             Contract Awards on Tunnel. Greenwatch Industrial Toxic

Wastes. Inter-Island Tunnel Groundbreaking. Effluent Outfall tunnel protest. Interim Sludge Facility.

OA-3               ¾. 1991-1992.  Water rate hikes. Prison closing deer island. Effluent outfall tunnel.
             MWRA new director, doug macdonald.  “the longest flush”. Indian burial grounds.

OA-4               ¾.  1989-1994. Workers on Deer Island. Irish Burial Grounds Deer Island. Effluent
             outfall tunnel. Boston Harbor Swim. BHP overviews.FRSA pellet plant opening.

OA-5               ¾.  1990 Boston Harbor Protest at White House (6pm news).

OA-6               ¾. Jesse Jackson: Boston Harbor 1990.

OA-7               ¾. NBC Today Show: Boston Harbor 1990.

OA-8               ¾. Air-checks by Playback, 1991. Groundbreaking. Debates. Outfall pipe protest.
             Echo bridge. No-name storm. Mwra new director 1992.recycling/ pellet plant.

OA-9               ¾.  Air-checks by Playback, 1992-3. boston harbor tour. Longest flush, boston
             harbor swim. “getting soaked”.

OA-10             ¾. 1992. outfall tunnel tour. VMS.

OA-11             ¾. Playbakc. 1993. BHP tour w/ congressman.

OA-12             ¾.  Playback & VMS. 1994. tunnel fire. Tunnel fire aftermath.

 

Box #15:

OFF- AIR DUBS   OA –1 (1A, 4, 8) and OA-13-25

18 that are VHS

 

OA-1A                        VHS. Duplicate from ¾

OA-4               VHS, dub of Part 2: “boston Harbor Cleanup” news on 6/12/92

OA-4               VHS, dub of Part 14: “Deer Island” news 1994

OA-8               VHS. Part 9 only of many parts. “Deer Island” storm on news

OA- 13            VHS. Public meeting 1987. Conn river diversion.

OA- 14            VHS.1988.  News: cleanup controversy over tunnel length. 8/19/88 Levy V. Mavroulis.

OA-15             VHS. VHS recorded at home. 1989-90. Drought. Newton Water Leak. Good Green
             Earth. MWRA labor agreement.  Howie Carr at MWRA. John Devillars intvw on news.
             Serious water restrictions. Paul Levy.

OA- 16            VHS. WBZ tv debate. Parcel 18 HQ siting/ rates. Paul Levy interview. “We had to
             fix a 30-year problem”. Levy faces members of the Press. 9/17/89

OA-17             VHS. 1989. CBS: Earthquest series. Story on beaches/ sewerage. Charles Osgood
             hosts. 11/22/89

OA-18             VHS. 1989 Master from VMS. Demolishing US. Bunker on Deer Island. 12/27/89.

OA-18             VHS. Dub from VMS. Demolishing US. Bunker on Deer Island. 12/27/89.

OA-19             VHS. “Affairs of State” show. Mentiones presidential campaign blunder
             (Bush/Dukakis) Bush at “harbor of shame”. 7/11/90.

OA-20             VHS. “Inside Edition”. Story about Harbor. Sen. Golden began lawsuit against MDC.
             Joanne Muti on-camera. 7/25/90

OA-21             VHS. Winthrop cable access. Levy and Dukakis on boat. Graphics. 1990.

OA-22             VHS. Good graphics and footage of how sewage gets treated.  Storm with no name.
             11/90

OA-23             VHS. Tv news on toxic waste. 12/1/90.

OA-24             VHS. Paul Levy on news. 7/3-5, 1991. BHP impact on unemployment.

OA-25             VHS. Groundbreaking on Deer Island. 7/30/91. Playback.

 

Box 16:

OFF- AIR DUBS   OA 26-51

24 that are VHS

5 that are Beta

 

These are all News Stories (WBZ, WCVB, NECN, WHDH, WLVI, etc) taped off the news satellite
             feeds as part of a service from VMS.

         OA-26             VHS. WBZ news about outfall pipe. Cape Cod’s angry resident response. Paul Levy
             interviewed. CLF’s Peter Shelley interviewed. 9/5/91.

         OA-27             VHS. Outfall tunnel debates. News. Paul Levy. Senator Bill Golden on boat- shouts
             support to protesters. Boat blockade

        (cape cod protest). Man in lobster-suit protests at city hall. “STOP” group. 7/18/91

         OA-28             VHS.Discovery Channel. Enviro-safe homes. Underwater pollution. Talks about harbor
             and toxins.

         OA-29             VHS. Overview of all problems and obstacles on Boston Harbor Project.

OA-29             VHS. DUPLICATE.

OA-30             VHS. “The Foul Area” Underwater garbage. George Perry/ atomic dumpers. Outfall
             Tunnel story. 3/17/92

OA-31             VHS. Deer Island tunnel fire on news. 6/15/94

OA-32             VHS. MWRA sludge meeting. 1/31/84

OA-33             VHS. One minute wrapup of BHP, not dated.

OA-34             VHS. Quincy Tunnel town meeting. 3/13/95

OA-35             Beta. Various news stories.

OA-35             VHS. Dub of beta but only of stories 4/5.

OA-36             VHS. Inter-island tunnel breakthrough- digging by hand! 11/4/95

OA-37             VHS. Return of seals to Boston harbor. 1/96

OA-38             VHS. Beaches almost clean. 8/3/92

OA-39             VHS.

OA-40             VHS. WBZ news. Closeups of Deer Island. Funding slashed by Congress. Rates up. 
             John Kerry “clean new harbor”. Seals.

Historical paintings of harbor. Bush on boat in Boston Harbor pointing at sewage. Raw sewage in
             Braintree. Stench of sewage covered.

OA-41             VHS. Same story as on Tape 40 about Dick Armey. Budgets.

OA-42             VHS. Vice President Al Gore at harbor. 4/96

OA-43             Beta. Deer Island/ Chronicle/ Newton Sewer Break/ Charles River Pollition

OA-44             VHS. Overnight workers on BHP.

OA-45             VHS. Discovery Channel on BHP. 1996. Toilet overflows. Raw sewage.

OA-46             VHS. Mismanaged MWRA funds expose.

OA-47             Beta

OA-48             VHS. Draught fear. Shots of water/ sewage.

OA-49             VHS. Seals in Harbor.

OA-50             Beta

OA-51             VHS. Other people in Bay- recreation back to harbor.

OA- 53            Beta. NOT ON PACKING LIST.

 

Box 17:

PROJECT VIDEOS  PV 1-25

18 that are ¾

6 that are MISSING

1 that are Beta.

 

PV-1                ¾. “Every Drop Counts”. Northern Lights Prod. Explains MWRA (some internal,
             machine, aerials of harbor, boston traffic). PSA/ industrial about water preservation. 1986.

PV-2                ¾. Interviews with Mr. Granville of Kaiser. 11/12/88. Promoting need for cleanup.
             Clean up harbor so it will “flow back to communities” in terms of property value, etc. “it must be
             done”.

PV-3                ¾. MISSING. Original. (not noted as missing on box) Original.

PV-4                ¾. “MWRA bond” stars with the Bush/Quayle commercial (partial) about harbor
             pollution aimed against Dukakis. This is a PSA for MWRA. MWRA has power, money. Rates will
             continue to go up because the “economy is dependent on us”. Ad for potential investors. Logo of
             MWRA turns into a dollar sign. Graphic of water flow from reservoirs. Shots of various MWRA
             workers and buildings. 1989. Old Deer Island plant. Schemativ of new site proposals. Shipyard
             site in Quincy.

PV-5                ¾. This version of MWRA bond starts with the FULL Bush/Qualye ad from above.
             More upbeat music here. **

PV-6                ¾. MISSING. master

PV-7                Beta. MISSING.

PV-8                ¾. Duplicate of missing PV-7, above. Tour of Deer Island, 6/89. Historical images of
             Harbor, narration tells history of sewage. Schematics of outfall tunnel. **

PV-9                ¾. 2nd clarifier testing. Liquid dissolves in tanl. 8/31/89

PV-10              ¾. Explosions on island. Tower falls. Cheering. 1/18/90. Bunker 105 explosion.

PV-11              ¾. Log included. Harbor WS. Rowes wharf.  Quabbin Reservoir. Deer Island. 1989.
             Still see correctional facility on Deer Island. No sound at construction sites. Model of proposed
             plant. Timecode on log corresponds to tape except tape is hour one. Bunker 105 explosion. Nut
             Island Fore River. **

PV-12              ¾. BHP update. 1/90. With Richard Fox/proj manager for MWRA. Lots of graphics
             and charts he stands in front of.

PV-13              ¾. Interim sludge processing. 1990. fertilizer. Explains process.

PV-14              ¾. Music Only. Dub.

PV-15              Beta Master. MISSING.

PV-16              ¾. Paintbox graphics. Map of harbor, blueprints? Map showing tunnels. Sub-master.

PV-17              ¾. MISSING

PV-18              ¾. MISSING

PV-19              ¾. Bush Campaign Commercial, 1988. (polluted harbor) **

PV-20              ¾. Voice-overs for BHP video. Footage follows in unnarrated segments. Construction
             various shots. 1988-1990.

PV-21              ¾. Emergency Drill

.PV-22             ¾. Broll for Press. All titled.  Harbor aerials. Map of harbor. Deer island 1988 WS.
             Deer Island Treatment plant model. Deer Island 1989.marine facilities. Trucks on bridge. Workers
             arrive to work. Bunker 105 explosion. Construction on deer island. Concrete batch plant. Interim
             sludge transfer facility. Clarifiers. North main tunnel shafts. Tunnel boring machines. Effluent outfall
             tunnel. Jack up barge 1991. Nut Island 1991. Inter-Island Tunnel. Fore

River Staging area. Marine Facilities.  Interim sludge processing facility. Squantim Point. Deer Island
             1991. Quick montage of various construction

PV-23              ¾. Boring drill / safety awareness.

PV-24              ¾. Underwater shots of diffuser/ 11/91

PV-25              ¾. More underwater.

 

 

Box 18: PROJECT VIDEOS  PV 26-37

11 that are ¾

2 that are ¾ that are MISSING

 

 

PV-26              ¾. MISSING

PV-27              ¾. Deer Island Storm Damage- big storm 10/30/90.

PV-28              ¾. BHP overview. Weird kraftwerktype music over graphics. Schematics. At 0:14:00
             in “computers pave our way”. Construction WS.

PV-29              ¾. FRSA overview 5/91.

PV-30              ¾. FRSA plant overview. Voice-over explains history of harbor and maps and sludge.
             News clippings. **

PV-31              ¾. Broll (have seen all this on earlier tapes) Harbor, maps, quiet harbor, deer island
             treatment plant model, deer island 1989 from air. Marine

facilities. Trucks entering. Workers arrive off ferry. Bunker 105 explosion. Disposal of surplus in water.
             Concrete batch plant. Sludge xfer facility. 1991.

clarifiers A& B. Tunnel. Boring machine. Effluent outfall tunnel ’91. Schematic of tunnels on map.
             Tunnel interior 1992. Jack up barge inter-island tunnel construction. 1992. Fore River Staging area
             1990. MWRA ferry sign. Squantum point.

PV-32              ¾. Same as 31.

PV-33              ¾. MISSING

PV-34              ¾. “It’s Working”- Target Productions 1992. About MWRA. VO tells history from
             1985. Office workers at MWRA. Doug Macdonald

interview (Exec. Director MWRA 1992). Richard Fox (project director).

PV-35              ¾.”It’s Working” graphics Broll, prod by Target Prod 5/92,

PV-36              ¾.Wendie Sakakeeny BHP vo tracks prod by RVA

PV-37              ¾. Split Audio tracks for BHP prod by RVA - all graphic elements.

 

Box 19: PROJECT VIDEOS  PV 38-48

11 that are ¾

 

PV-38              ¾. MWRA graphics for BHP produced by C. Tressler for RVA 1/93.

PV-39              ¾. MWRA (process flow) produced by C. Tressler for RVA 1/93.

PV-40              ¾. MWRA graphics (slo mo/animation) produced by C. Tressler for RVA 1/93.          

Pv-41               ¾. “The Boston Harbor Project” (#2) prod by RVA. 2/93.      

Pv-42               ¾. Same as above.      

PV-43              ¾. Residual tanks construction 1993. (“eggs” arrive)/ placement of eggs.

PV-44              ¾. BHP “residual treatment facility” with Frank DePaola. He gives voice-over.
             Explains about diegesters (eggs) explains history. 1991.Explains how eggs got off barge. First 2
             digesters in place (out of 16 total) **.

PV-45              ¾. 1993 overview for Conservation Law Exhibit. Ftg of Deer Island 1988. Seen all
             this footage before. New footage of men IN tunnel working 1991, 1992. underground footage.
             (tunnels).

PV-46              ¾. BHP: Tunnel Contstruction. Aerials. Map. 1992. South shaft. Placing concrete.
             Tunnel interiors. Nut island. 91. lots of underwater shots.

PV-47              ¾. Tunnel overview with narration. Shows Deer Island Tunnel. 1990. Slurry wall.
             (1st phase).

PV-48              ¾. “Cave-In” From VHS with music “down by the harbor.. I love dirty water” cute
             song about cleaning up the harbor. Shows fun shots of workers. By D. Corkum. **

 

Box 20:

PROJECT VIDEOS  PV 51-75

5 that are ¾

6 that are MISSING

10 that are Beta

1 that is VHS.

 

PV-51              3/4. US Department of the Interior. Geological Survey. Animated model by Rich
             Signell of flow and currents in Harbor. Log and description included with tape.

PV-52              3/4. Pelletizing Video. May 16, 1994. Voice-over only by Wendie Sakakeey. No
             video.

PV-53              3/4. “Down the Drain” has a Spanish version (pv-56) and a D2 master for each. By
             New England Fertilizer company. Household shots about what happens to water when it goes down
             a drain. Graph of MWRA sewers. Describes “sludge” treatment as being like digestion. From waste
             to fertilizer pellets. **

PV-54              MISSING- d2 submaster of above.

PV-55              3/4.“State of the Harbor Press Release: produced by RVA” 1994.

PV-56              3/4. “Despues de el Drenje” produced by RVA. 1994. master

PV-57              MISSING. Submaster of above.

PV-58              3/4. MWRA inter-island tunnel update November, 1994. Tony Steward, manager
             shows graph and progress of tunnel. Interior of tunnel.

PV-59              VHS. “The Deer Island Project: Public Participation” prod by Stone & Webster for
             RVA. 1988. dub.

PV-60              3/4. “Opercurso da Aqua” by rva. 1994. master.

PV-61              Beta. BHP Press Roll #1: Outfall Tunnel. 1995. betaSP submaster.

PV-62              Beta. BHP Press Roll #2: Clean Water, Sampling, Jack up Barge, kids, boats, beauty
             shots. 1995.

PV-63              Beta. BHP Press Roll #3: Tall ships, outfalls, sludge barge, old prison, bunker demo.
             1995.

PV-64              Beta. BHP Press Roll #4: Aerials 1989-1994. master.

PV-65              Beta. “nut island headworks overview” 1995. master.

PV-66              Beta. “employee orientation & safety awareness” 1995.

PV-67              Beta. CP-301 residuals overview. 1991-1995.

PV-68              Beta. CP 282 Tunnel Tour 95.

PV-69              Beta. CP 151 Overview for Hole Through 1995. master

PV-70              MISSING Inter-tunnel overview 1991-1995

PV-71              Beta.CP-151 Inter-Island Tunnel Overview 1991-1995. 1996.

PV-72              MISSING

PV-73              Beta. CP-282 Outfall diffusers press release.

PV-74              MISSING

PV-75              MISSING

 

Box 21: PROJECT VIDEOS  PV 76-103

19    that are Beta

8 That are missing

 

PV-76              Beta. Baseline Monitoring Program. (Westcott narration). 11/96. Map of outfall tunnel
             again. Barge again. Underwater again. Water qualitymonitoring. New map of where in harbor water
             is assessed. Men on boat lower things. Fish being taken out of water tank with net and inspected.
             Testing in lab about deer island. Gross sea foam on beaches. Right Whale sighting.

PV-77              MISSING

PV-78              Beta. Training sessions. To go along with printed instruction book. CCTV training
             video.

PV-79              Beta. BHP Tunnel overviews. 3/97. construction. Bulldozer lifted out of tunnel
             entrance. NEW map of Deer Island and Sea floor tunnel. Diffuser system. Barges. More
             underwater. General graphics. Tunnel lining.

PV-80              MISSING

PV-81              MISSING

PV-82              Beta. Short overview. 12/97. Narrated about Nut Island. Excavating. Aerials of 1991.
             Tunnel.

PV-83              Beta. Litigation (edited VHS and Hi8 not for public use.) 10/13/93 men working on
             site. Bulldozers. 11-16-93.

PV-84              Beta. Nearfield station

PV-85              Beta. Graphics and animation

PV-86              MISSING

PV-87              Beta. Boston Harbor Project Edited Video Comp #3. Produced by RVA, copyright
             MWRA. Narrated. Night shot of city from water. Deer Island at night. Morning shift arrives on