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Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay
MWRA Environmental Quality Department

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What's New

ARCHIVE: All Web Water Quality Reports
HARBOR & BAY MONITORING
What's New: Latest web water quality reports  
Technical Reports  
  Managing the water quality database  
  BOSTON HARBOR
  20 Years of Change: Powerpoint Presentation or Printable PDF
  The State of Boston Harbor  
   
   
 
  The Boston Harbor Project  
  Boston Harbor Project Timeline  
  The Environmental Benefits of the Boston Harbor Project
(MWRA Press Release)		  
BEACHES
  
  Harbor Bacteria
  Harbor Beach Monitoring  
  Harbor Beaches  
WATER QUALITY
  
  Harbor Clarity
Harbor Dissolved Oxygen  
  Nutrient Inputs to Boston Harbor  
  Harbor Nutrients and Algae (printable sheet)  
  Eutrophication in Boston Harbor (printable sheet)  
SEDIMENTS
  
  Harbor Sediment Types
  Harbor Sediment Contamination  
  Harbor Sediment Recovery  
ECOSYSTEM
  
Harbor Fish and Shellfish  
RIVERS
  
  River Clarity and Algae  
  River Bacteria  
  Charles River  
  Mystic River  
  Neponset River  
MASSACHUSETTS BAY
  Bay Bacteria
  Sea floor monitoring: near the outfall
  Sea floor monitoring: away from the outfall
  Sea floor monitoring: hardbottom communities
  Winter flounder monitoring
  Winter flounder abundance
  Marine mammals
  Bay Monitoring Quarterly Report (PDF)
  Outfall Monitoring Overview (PDF)
TREATMENT PLANT DISCHARGES  
  Discharge Monitoring
  About the Mass. Bay outfall
  Changes after the Mass. Bay outfall


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