Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant
The Deer Island Waste Water Treatment Plant (also known as Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant) run and operated by The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is located on Deer Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands in Boston Harbor.
It is the second largest sewage treatment plant in the United States, second only to Chicago's Jardine Water Filtration Plant (Central District Filtration Plant).[1] [2] [3]
It is a key part of the program to protect Boston Harbor against pollution from Boston's city sewer systems.
The plant removes human, household, business and industrial pollutants from wastewater that originates in homes and businesses in forty three greater Boston communities. It complies with all federal and state environmental standards and subject to the discharge permit issued for it by EPA and DEP. Its treated wastewater can safely be released into the marine environment.
It has an array of 150 foot tall egg-like sludge digesters and these are major harbor landmarks.[4][5]
Notes
- ^ Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant. The Center for Land Use Interpretation.
- ^ Jardine Water Filtration Plant article
- ^ 1867 "The First Tunnel Under the Lake". Chicago Public Library.
- ^ "Islands You Can Visit - Deer Island". Boston Harbor Islands Partnership. Retrieved August 21.
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Bibliography
- Baldwin, Sandy, "Boston Harbor Pipe Dreams Come True!": USGS Visits the Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant and a Cleaner Harbor, USGS Sound Waves, April 2006.