winthrop environment & resilience
a coastal town's environmental record: its hazard mitigation and resilience plans and the studies behind its seawall, beach and tide gate projects, the state's study of the airport's effect on health and the airport's own yearly reports, the monitoring of the water around the town, the deer island plant's permit, and the state's environmental review of projects in town. every document is copied here and its text can be searched.
56 records · 167 documents · 13,660 pages. Gathered from the Town's own website, FEMA, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council ↗, Mass.gov, Massport ↗, the MWRA ↗, the EPA and the state's MEPA office ↗.
Federal permits for what is in town, above all the Deer Island treatment plant's discharge permit, with the public's comments.
- Environmental permitU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyDeer Island treatment plant discharge permit (MA0103284), 2023 draft…In accordance with these policies, whole effluent chronic effects are regulated by limiting the highest measured continuous concentration of an effluent that causes no…921 pages
- Environmental permitU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPublic comments on the Deer Island permit (MA0103284), 2023…In writing a fact sheet, EPA must address “the significant factual, legal, methodological and policy questions considered in preparing the draft permit.” 40 C…679 pages