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experiences and comparisons with old charts caused observers to insist that the inner harbor was also filling and created widespread anxiety about the destruction of the Boston Harbor. Although the scientific understanding of hydraulics was still in its infancy and there were high degrees of uncertainty regarding the meeting of land and water, scientists and engineers began to describe the Boston Harbor as a series of channels created and maintained by the scouring force of water moving in and out of the harbor, river systems, and tidal reservoirs. This interpretation came to be known as the theory of
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Deer Island). With these mandates, the harbor was seeing small improvements, but raw sewage was still continuously pumped into the harbor. In 1919, the
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in 1773, as well as almost continuous building of wharves, piers, and new filled land into the harbor until the 19th century. By 1660, almost all imports came to the greater Boston area and the New
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system in Boston Harbor. The prices of both these fish types vary by season. The plan was to collect and store fish in the tanks and sell the fish at higher prices when they were out of season. Nothing has come of this plan to date.
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reclamation such a widespread activity in Boston. By the end of the nineteenth century, the city had created more land in two generations than it had in the previous two centuries.
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2295:Chancellors
2063:Key figures
1887:Broad Sound
1809:Egypt River
1761:Rock Harbor
1731:East Harbor
1703:Warren Cove
1627:Waquoit Bay
1587:Hingham Bay
1582:Duxbury Bay
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1258:October 12,
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1191:MWRA Online
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770:aquaculture
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692:Deer Island
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450:Tidal scour
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2498:Categories
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2238:Savin Hill
2228:Dorchester
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1925:Woods Hole
1869:Weir River
1859:Skug River
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987:References
808:Nixes Mate
706:Nut Island
676:The Graves
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422:Weir River
398:Quincy Bay
328:LNG tanker
120:John Smith
443:Land fill
307:Geography
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1974:Airports
1688:Cat Cove
1637:Channels
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1368:GBH News
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420:and the
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