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NEW BEDFORD Last summer, you may have walked down to Pier 3, picked up a lobster roll or clam cakes from the city s new clam bar, The Whale s Tail, and enjoyed your meal while watching commercial fishing vessels maneuver around the port.
Whether that can happen again is up to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The agency is currently reviewing the New Bedford Port Authority s application to change the authorized use of the 208-square-foot shed in which the clam bar sits from water-dependent, industrial use to restaurant use.
Edmund Coletta, press secretary for MassDEP, said in an email that the use of the shed for a restaurant has not been authorized and will not be authorized unless and until a license has been issued. Last summer, the clam bar operated without the necessary state authorization.
Wicked Local
After a local brook turned milky white on April 2, the state Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) said on April 5 that the substance that likely caused the color change titanium dioxide “does not exhibit any hazardous characteristics.”
There are no levels of concern and no further testing will be conducted, said Edmund Coletta, director of the MassDEP public affairs office, on April 5.
The Newton Fire Department at 4 p.m. went to Hammond Brook, which runs through Newton Centre Playground, goes to the City Hall Ponds and then into Bullough’s Pond.
“The stream does not flow near public drinking water,” according to Mayor Ruthanne Fuller’s office.
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Florida Hack Exposes Danger to Water Systems
A city worker washes down a street after repairs to a water line in Sacramento, California. Cybersecurity experts say water systems need to be vigilant to protect against hackers.
Rich Pedroncelli
A renegade mouse cursor signaled the danger at the water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida.
On Feb. 5, a plant operator for the city of about 15,000 on Florida’s west coast saw his cursor being moved around on his computer screen, opening various software functions that control the water being treated. The intruder boosted the level of sodium hydroxide or lye in the water supply to 100 times higher than normal.