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Appendix F: The Boston Harbor Case: Management and Science
Appendix F: The Boston Harbor Case: Management and Science
Pages 251-260
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He was part of a group of marine scientists proposing to study issues they thought crucial to the ongoing environmental management debate about Boston Harbor, but he couldn't find an environmental manager interested in funding the study. Bothner's research project was evaluating where the 50 tons/day of sludge solids and 100 tons/day of sewage effluent produced by metropolitan Boston ended up after they were discharged into the deep waters of President Roads at the mouth of Boston Harbor.
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Finally, MWRA's Board of Directors established the Harbor Studies program that provided them with formal scientific input in an agency dominated by sanitary engineers. MWRA's Harbor Studies program quickly established a Cooperative Research Agreement with the USGS to develop circulation models to help determine how sewage effluent and particulates were transported around the bay.
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More recently, the University of Massachusetts-Boston Urban Harbors Institute, the Mass Bays Program, and the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management jointly sponsored the development of a statewide coastal monitoring effort. Finally, USGS used its Cooperative Research Agreement with the MWRA to seek further national funding by marketing its Massachusetts Bays work as a testing ground for the development of sediment assessment protocols.
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These managerial and scientific issues and approaches were slowly defined through informal workshops, committee meetings, and formal symposia. The Massachusetts Bays Program began by developing annual work plans and eventually a draft Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP)
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Table 2 Improvements in Communication Between Managers arid Scientists THEN Scientist Contact Managerial Contact Management Issues Defined None Scientific Approach Defined None Scientific Findings to Managers News Media Public Info Environmental Activists NOW No Clear Lead Few agency scientists Journal articles Little Interest None Few scientists on staff or board of directors Mass Bay Consortium Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant Offices Mass Bays Program (MBP) Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA)
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In 1990, MWRA began to publish its annual State of the Harbor report to address this larger audience and released the report publicly at the Mass Bays Symposium as well as holding press conferences for local media to present short "sound bites" that would get the information on television news. Spurred on by the public controversy surrounding the Boston Harbor Project, the news media became increasingly sophisticated in their reporting of the scientific issues, publishing several hundred stories each year in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Patriot Ledger, and the Cape Cod Times.
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Future Challenges The impetus to merge science and policy closely in the Boston Harbor Project was made easier by the large economic consequences of making the wrong technical choices in a $4 billion project. Now that much of the crisis surrounding the harbor has passed, it will become more difficult to retain the commitment of all parties compared to future complicated issues facing Massachusetts coastal waters.
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