Wastewater engineering and management plan for Boston harbor - eastern Massachusetts metropolitan area emma study, technical data, volume 12: financing and management

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...describes and evaluates the existing organizational structure and legislation concerned with the management and control of water pollution resulting from wastewater; reviews the operation of the Sewerage Division of the Metropolitan District Commission as well as the role of the MA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the US Environmental Protection Agency; provides profiles of 12 metropolitan sewerage agencies in the US to be used as a basis for comparison with the delivery of wastewater treatment services in eastern MA; examines barriers to attainment of goals for improved wastewater management; provides a methodology for analyzing treatment facilities and associated costs; presents recommendations for an alternative organizational structure as well as the legislative program required to implement it...

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