Boston Harbor & Charles River Cleanup

In 1982, Quincy City Attorney Bill Golden took his  famous run along Wollaston Beach , stepping on what he thought was a jellyfish but was actually feces. The City of Quincy sued the Metropolitan District Commission, triggering a domino effect of lawsuits that eventually spurred the creation of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) as a regional wastewater management agency and imposed a legal mandate to significantly curtail sewage releases into the Charles, Mystic, and Neponset Rivers, their tributaries, and Boston Harbor.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 called for “fishable, swimmable” rivers by 1983. The Clean Charles Initiative called for “a swimmable Charles” by 2005.

It's time to finish the job.

If you want a swimmable Charles River, then please join us to tell our leaders, it’s time to cut the crap going into the Charles River!