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Medford/Somerville, Mass. – Tufts University last week announced its commitment to work with the Mystic River Watershed Association, the Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs and the EPA to clean up the Mystic River by 2010. “I am particularly pleased today to commit some of Tufts University’s brightest and most creative faculty and student minds to figuring out ways to breathe new life into this river,” Tufts President DiBiaggio told reporter during a press conference last week to announce the clean up effort. He added that more than 100 Tufts students have already worked on projects that involved some aspect of cleaning up the Mystic. Over the next 10 years, Tufts faculty and students, led by engineering professor Paul Kirshen and Tufts’ Institute for the Environment, will work to reverse hundreds of years of pollution that contaminated the river – which encompasses 76 miles, half a million people and 21 communities. “This is the sort of thing Tufts has historically done very well,” Kirshen told The Boston Globe. DiBiaggio added, “This is the kind of active, engaged community service the University and our students so proudly pursue – not only during their years of study here, but after graduation as well.” The press conference was covered by Channel 4, 5, 7, 56, NECN and the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.
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Activists Announce Plan To Clean Up Mystic River