To filter or not to filter: a discussion and analysis of the Massachusetts filtration conflict in the context of the Safe Drinking Water Act

Article Abstract:

The author discusses the Safe Drinking Water Act's standards for public drinking water and analyzes the debate between the federal EPA and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority over the need to build a SDWA-compliant filtration plant.

Safety and security measures, Drinking water

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Carrying capacity and the comprehensive plan: establishing and defending limits to growth

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The use of carrying capacity analyses to assess the cumulative impact of land development on natural resources and other buildings is discussed. Laws to preserve carrying capacity limitations are entitled to a presumption of validity.

Real estate development

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"A river (and $5 billion of transportation infrastructure) runs through it": sustainability slouches toward Somerville's waterfront

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Efforts by Somerville, Massachusetts's Mystic View Task Force to create urban life along the Mystic River with the mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods that Jane Jacobs pioneered are discussed.

City planning, Urban planning, Mystic River

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