After World War II, waste-treatment plants and garbage-transfer operations, which are still active, were set up on the shoreline.
But mostly the lot lay barren amid a stretch of waste-treatment plants and factories.
At issue was a strange resolution to seek bids for freeze drying sludge at waste-treatment plants on the South Shore.
As long ago as the nineteen-seventies, bigheads and silvers escaped into the lower Mississippi River from waste-treatment plants and commercial catfish ponds in Arkansas and Mississippi.
The rest went into streams and bodies of water, underground injection wells, landfills and waste-treatment plants.
Scalamandre has a 20 percent interest in a joint venture with three other companies for a $168 million contract to remove sludge from waste-treatment plants, starting July 1.
The agency would be able to issue bonds for such improvements as sewers and waste-treatment plants.
Sophisticated voters have become increasingly adept at chasing away new applications for waste-treatment plants.
In the entire world there are 11 parks atop waste-treatment plants, and the other 10 are in Japan.
The only other country that has used the roofs of waste-treatment plants is Japan, which has 10.