Oysters should love that dirty water Mollusks' return may help clean Charles River

The Boston Globe | October 26, 2008| | Copyright

They were trundled north from their nursery in Duxbury - 150,000 of them rattling in crates - to the banks of the Charles River with a singular purpose: to eat sewage.

Measuring roughly an inch from tip to tip of their rose-and-ash gray shells, these oysters are the vanguard of a water pollution cleanup project launched yesterday by the Massachusetts Oyster Project.

There was a time, up through the 20th century, when the oysters grew as long as a man's shoe and were plentiful in the Charles, Neponset, and Mystic rivers, according to Charlestown resident and chief project organizer Andrew T. ...

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