Pollution
Some citizens have protested the continued letting of raw sewage into the cove, especially after the accidental spilling of 20 million gallons of sewage in 1997, and are lobbying for it to stop, but such redesigns would run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Metropolitan District Company's multi-billion dollar Clean Water Project seeks to address this problem.
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