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Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay MWRA Environmental Quality Department
Boston Harbor Map of Boston Harbor Changes in sources of harbor contamination Harbor contamination sources after closing of Harbor outfalls Model of tidal mixing in Boston Harbor Bacteria 1939 Report on coliform bacteria Enterococcus bacteria in Boston Harbor Annual pattern of high bacteria counts at Harbor beaches Trends in bacteria at previous harbor outfall sites Other Water Quality Measures Patterns of water clarity in Boston Harbor, contour maps Water clarity at previous harbor outfall sites Harbor-wide changes in ammonium Ammonium levels at the previous harbor outfall sites Summer chlorophyll in Boston Harbor, contour maps Pattern of dissolved oxygen in Boston Harbor Average dissolved oxygen in the Inner Harbor
Sediment Boston Harbor sediment types, contour map Sediment oxygen demand in Boston Harbor Sediment profile imaging sites and sampling locations Boston Harbor sediment profile images, contour maps Oxygen penetration into harbor sediments, contour maps
Metals Lead decrease in Boston Harbor sediments
Fish and Shellfish Prevalence of Ampelisca in Boston Harbor Abundance and Diversity of Benthic Animals in the Harbor Boston Harbor fish and shellfish monitoring locations Liver disease in winter flounder PCBs in lobster hepatopancreas (tomalley)
Treatment Plant Discharges Biochemical Oxygen Demand in discharges Solids discharges Metals discharges Mercury discharges Nitrogen discharges Primary and secondary treated flows Modeled dilution patterns of treatment plant discharges into the Harbor Boston Harbor's Tributary Rivers Spatial pattern of river bacteria Patterns of river bacteria compared to phases of CSO control Comparison of water clarity in the rivers and the harbor Spatial trend in Charles River Water Clarity Comparison of chlorophyll in the rivers and the Harbor Massachusetts Bay Sampling sites throughout Massachusetts Bay Model predictions of effluent dilution compared to monitoring results Satellite imagery of chlorophyll Seasonal chlorophyll levels at the Bay outfall site