Bonsoir !

Hi everyone,

Last wednesday, we went on a boat trip, to visit and learn about the Boston's harbor.

First of all, Boston's harbor is situated between Cap Code and Cap Ann and contains a lot of islands. Indeed there is 34 islands as Moon island, Bumpkin island, etc ... and are all part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. this Area was established in 1996.

During the trip porfessor Berman told us lots of information about theses Islands, but to my mind there was two key informations. The first one was the Central Artery/Tunnel (The Big Dig), and the second one, the cleaning project.

1) The Big Dig project is one of the most expensive highway project in the United States, and one of the most complex undergroung engineering project, it cost US$18 billion. The aim of this project was to redue the traffic especially for North-South trip.

By creating underground highway, it allowed to have green spaces in the center of Boston, as you can see on the following picture.

2) The cleaning water project. Because of the harbor pollution, the health of the community started to become affected. That's why they created MWRA.

Nowadays, Boston's Harbor is one of the most clean harbor in the world. Most of the facilities are located on Deer Islands wich permit to treat waste water from 43 surrounding communities of Boston. This project cost US$6 million.

See you on wednesday

Benjamin