Wastewater engineering and management plan for Boston harbor - eastern Massachusetts metropolitan area emma study, technical data volume 13: impact analysis and evaluation, 13a: biological impact analysis, 13b: socioeconomic impact analysis, 13c: hygienic impact analysis, 13d: visual, cultural and design impact analysis

...documents the impact assessment effort carried out in relation to the development of alternative wastewater management strategies; indicated how a technical subcommittee considered both beneficial and adverse aesthetic, biological, hygienic and socioeconomic impacts that would result from each alternative; volume 13A contains an annotated bibliography on reports which provide information of a physical, chemical or biological nature about the estuaries and tributaries along the MA coast; volume 13B has a list of outdoor recreation and open space sites in eastern MA including their acreage; volume 13C provides data on sources and nature of pollution in Boston harbor and watersheds in the study area as well as discussion of shellfish control; includes extensive discussion of biological and chemical hazards of wastewater to the public health and an evaluation of the effectiveness of wastewater treatment in eliminating these hazards...