The Department of Justice says it's settled a lawsuit against Eversource and the MWRA over a Deer Island power cable under Boston Harbor the government had said was not buried deeply enough to allow for planned dredging to let the Conley Terminal in South Boston handle larger ships. Read more.
No identification of the body recovered this morning, let alone possible cause of death yet, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The body was first spotted by the crew of a commercial fishing vessel, who radioed the Coast Guard. State Environmental Police and the Boston Police harbor unit recovered the body.
The body, is believed to be that of an adult but was in a state of decomposition such that age, gender, and ethnicity are not immediately apparent.
Maria M. walked around Deer Island this past weekend and paused at the Bella Bond memorial, paid for by workers at the MWRA plant and placed near where the little girl's body washed up in 2015.
The plaque reads: Read more.
US District Court Judge Richard Stearns today added Massport to the federal government's suit against the MWRA and Eversource over an electric cable to Deer Island from South Boston that the feds say will interfere with dredging aimed at letting the Conley Terminal accept larger ships. Read more.
The federal government this week sued Eversource and the MWRA because, it alleges, an electrical cable from South Boston to Deer Island is in the way of the harbor dredging the government wants to do. Read more.
A comparison of the oxygen isotopes in the still unidentified girl's hair and teeth with water samples suggests "the child may have spent time in any of several New England states, as well as other locations across the US," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
617 Images attended a vigil at Deer Island this evening for "Baby Doe" - the roughly 4-year-old girl who remains unidentified a month after her body was found on Deer Island, wrapped in a blanket inside a plastic trash bag.
Anybody with information can contact State Police at 508-820-2121 or by texting GIRL to 6728.
Authorities today released an updated computer-generated image of the girl, about 4, whose body was found wrapped in a blanket inside a plastic bag on Deer Island last month.
The girl remains unidentified. Anybody who might have information can contact State Police at 617-727-8817 or 617-820-2121.
Authorities today released a computer-generated image of what the girl whose body was found on Deer Island may have looked like.
Suffolk County DA Dan Conley said dozens of tips have yet to bring investigators closer to the identity of the girl, aged about 4. A woman walking her dog around Deer Island last week found her body in a plastic bag - along with a zebra-stripe blanket. Read more.
State Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reported today:
After a physical examination by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, investigators believe the girl was about 4 years old with brown eyes and brown hair that was about 14 inches long. She stood about 3½ feet tall, and weighed just over 30 pounds. She was not significantly overweight or underweight for her height. Her ethnicity has not been established.
State and Winthrop Police are investigating the discovery of a bag containing the remains of a toddler found on the shore of Deer Island around 1 p.m.
Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Mark Lee said the body was that of a "a young child, small." Read more.
Today's the anniversary of the day in 1991 when workers for the new MWRA turned a valve that stopped sewage sludge from pouring into Boston Harbor from an antiquated treatment plant at Deer Island. Paul Levy, who oversaw construction of the new treatment plant, the one with the giant eggs, recalls:
Instead of having a big event with elected and regulatory officials who would have stolen the scene, we quietly went to Deer Island and--with the guys who had loyally and with little support run the treatment plant for years--went down into a vault and--at 10:23am--simply shut off the sludge discharge line.
Kristin MacDougall posted a photo of one of two peregrine-falcon chicks born on Deer Island recently.
She reports falcons have lived high atop the sewage-treatment plant's "digesters" (the giant egg things) for awhile, but this is the first time any have hatched there.
Fisheries and Wildlife experts banded the two females (named Taylor and Julia) today.
Mark Garfinkel posts a series of photos from Deer Island of the president's plane arriving in Boston yesterday.
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