Boston city councilor says street sweepers used at Mass and Cass may spread diseases

www.bostonherald.com ^ | 08/08/2023 | GAYLA CAWLEY

[massmike]

City Councilor Erin Murphy has filed a hearing order to look into whether street cleaning equipment used in the area of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue is spreading infectious diseases to other parts of Boston.

Murphy said the city uses the same cleaning equipment on Southampton, Atkinson and Topeka streets as it does in other neighborhoods, including the South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill and Bay Village.

This creates the potential for contamination traveling from Mass and Cass to those other neighborhoods, Murphy said. She plans to discuss the hearing request at Wednesday’s City Council meeting.

“It’s scary what they’re finding and they’re using the same equipment,” Murphy told the Herald. “It’s a public health crisis.”

Murphy said she is not concerned with needles being dragged from Mass and Cass, where open-air drug dealing and homeless encampments are rampant, via the street cleaning equipment.

Rather, her focus is on concerns she and other lawmakers raised in a letter sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The group fears untreated stormwater runoff from the needle-strewn area is polluting Boston Harbor.

“We have recently learned that catch basins in the area known as Mass and Cass dump right out into Boston Harbor via the Fort Point Channel without any filtration,” the lawmakers stated in a letter previously reported by the Herald.

[BipolarBob]

The Street Sweeper cleans up the mess liberals leave behind.

[ClearCase_guy]

Clean streets are racist.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The group fears untreated stormwater runoff from the needle-strewn area is polluting Boston Harbor.

Hmmm...what could be making the stormwater runoff so filthy, unhealthy and toxic? I wonder what it could possibly be.

[Da Coyote]

“Hmmm...what could be making the stormwater runoff so filthy, unhealthy and toxic? I wonder what it could possibly be.”

Uh, Boston.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (Except for California, Illinois, the rests of Massachusetts, and on and on.)

[blackdog]

Seems elitist. Spreading poor peoples stank. Sounds like Peter Strozk thinking.

[algore]

Ya know I never considered the before.

I think we need to get the CDC on this Stat

spreading the disease live

[glorgau]

Well I love that dirty water
Oh, Boston, you’re my home

[Radix]

A bunch of degenerates sharing ‘free’ needles injecting drugs into their necks is perfectly fine and no threat to common hygiene.

I am so glad I have finally gotten out of that disgusting area. I worked over there in that area for years.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was around in ‘65 when “Dirty Water” charted on AM. None of that listening to it in ballparks for me. I’m the real deal.

[metmom]

Welcome to the utopia you helped create.

[bitt]

p

[ronnie raygun]

using the street as a bathroom facility will do it

[maddog55]

It’s a city and cities are the shxtholes of society. Cities are where those incapable of making it in life gather with like minded individuals looking for handouts from politicians that don’t know how to deal with problems and criminals that feed off the politicians and and people that can’t make it in life.

Liberal utopia...

[bigfootbob]

I often wonder why the liberals that have and continue to ruin the Pugetopolis area, heads have not imploded over this issue. Orca whales and Salmon are religious articles to the left, both are at risk from the runoff from these enlightened feral communities. Cognitive dissonance on full display.