eprintid: 4178 rev_number: 20 eprint_status: archive userid: 351 dir: disk0/00/00/41/78 datestamp: 2016-01-15 02:04:39 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:14:55 status_changed: 2016-01-15 02:04:39 type: monograph metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 2 creators_name: Shanahan, P. creators_id: AL0354 title: A Water-Quality History of the Blackstone River, Massachusetts, USA: Implications for Central and Eastern European Rivers ispublished: pub internal_subjects: iis_ecl internal_subjects: iis_env internal_subjects: iis_wat abstract: The Blackstone River is a relatively small river that drains the area around Worcester, Massachusetts, one of first industrialized cities in the United States. Until the 1970s, the river was highly polluted by industrial and municipal wastewaters -- not unlike the current situation in degraded rivers in areas of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Today, the Blackstone enjoys considerably improved water quality as the result of two historical processes: continuing investment and improvement in municipal wastewater treatment in response to increasingly stringent U.S. federal water-quality laws, and the control or elimination of industrial discharges. A key factor in the river's restoration was the early development of and continued adherence to a comprehensive basin water-quality plan. A similar planning process is recommended for CEE countries. Nonetheless, achieving acceptable water quality in the Blackstone was a slow process, requiring decades of intensive improvement in wastewater treatment. A similarly slow process can be anticipated in the CEE countries unless cost-effective interim improvements in wastewater treatment are sought. date: 1994-05 date_type: published publisher: WP-94-031 iiasapubid: WP-94-031 price: 10 creators_browse_id: 2377 full_text_status: public monograph_type: working_paper place_of_pub: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria pages: 16 coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book citation: Shanahan, P. (1994). A Water-Quality History of the Blackstone River, Massachusetts, USA: Implications for Central and Eastern European Rivers. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-94-031 document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4178/1/WP-94-031.pdf