High toxicity is found in harbor mud From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 12, 1992| Author: | Copyright 1992 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Toxic chemicals, including arsenic, lead, mercury and PCBs, are being found in the mud being dredged from the bottom of Boston Harbor for the Third Harbor Tunnel. The toxicity is so high that the federal government is refusing to allow the muck to be dumped at sea.

The toxicity has forced state officials, fearful of further delay in the Third Harbor Tunnel project, to conduct tests aimed at determining how to neutralize the harmful chemicals. Dredging stopped late last week, because project managers had no place to put the mud. It is now aboard five barges at a pier in South Boston.

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