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The water quality report card is in for metro beaches from Nahant to Nantasket in Hull. Find out how your go-to beach spot in the Greater Boston area stacks up. Image via WCVB.
– News about Quincy covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
“Facts are stubborn things”
A Save the Harbor/Save the Bay chart
Quincy’s Wollaston Beach’s water does not make the grade.
As will come as no great surprise to Quincy residents, an Eastern Massachusetts not-for-profit reports that Wollaston Beach is not a prime place for swimming.
How bad are the local waters?
In 2020, Wollaston Beach was ranked as having the third dirtiest waters among the fifteen beaches tested.
Even more disconcerting, not only was Wollaston Beach’s 2020 water quality rating lower than its six-year water quality average, its 2020 water quality rating was the fifth year in a row that its water quality had declined.
Look, hate to admit it but I can’t swim – honest
A Facebook photo
While the Koch Maladministration has downplayed the water quality problems at Wollaston Beach, Quincy Quarry must note that it has not received any Quincy Quarry News Citizen Photojournalist stealth photos of nearby Wollaston Beach resident Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch taking a dip at Wollaston Beach.
Not that anyone would care to see any such images even if Quincy Quarry is now officially challenging him to take a swim at Wollaston Beach.
Not ever.
The EPA goes large and takes charge of seeing Quincy’s waters cleaned
A Troma Entertainment image
Also (disingenuously, ed.) recently downplayed by the Koch Maladministration is the fact that the City of Quincy plead out to a $100 million – or even greater – fix-it ticket issued by the United States Department of Environmental Protection that requires Quincy to be on a manner of probation for at least an unlucky thirteen years while the EPA rides herd on the City of Quincy to clean up local waters even if cleaning up the maladministration’s act is not going to but perhaps happen until Mayor Koch leaves office.
Source: See which Greater Boston beaches make the grade for water quality
Picnic canceled. Thank you for your honest reporting.
You don’t seriously think that this current administration is responsible for the water problems do you. The water issues have been in play for decades and decades. That’s why I put a pool in.
Chris,
No argument, dirty water c/o City of Quincy infrastructure is a long ongoing problem. At the same time, the EPA spent over a decade pressing the city to do something about the problems, only to be stonewalled by the Koch Maladministration such that the feds then opted to take the rare step of taking Quincy to court. In turn, the Koch Maladministration then plead out to $100 million fix-it ticket as well as concurrently agreed to 13 years of de facto parole under the EPA so as to assure that the problems are addressed. In short, the maladministration is at minimum accountable for at least a fair chunk of the 100 large.