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information, contact David Eppstein by email at
deppstein@masco.harvard.edu,
or by calling 617-632-2860.
DISCLAIMER
This Guidebook is a product of the Mercury
Management Plan Subgroup of the Phase II MWRA/MASCO Mercury Work Group, Mercury Management
Subcommittee. All expressed opinions, suggestions, recommendations, and conclusions in
this Guidebook are those of the Subgroup and not necessarily those of any participating
person or institution, including MASCO and the MWRA.
The Work Group, the Subcommittee, the
Subgroup, and participating persons and institutions, including MASCO and the MWRA, make
no warranties or representations of any kind regarding the information in this Guidebook,
including, without limitation, accuracy, application, compliance with any law or
regulation, or any other purpose.
Any references in this Guidebook to
outside companies or vendors of either products or pretreatment technologies are not
intended to be endorsements by the Work Group, the Subcommittee, the Subgroup, or any of
its participating persons and institutions, including MASCO and the MWRA. Furthermore,
these parties shall not be held responsible, individually or jointly, for any actual or
consequential damages that may result from use of the information contained in this
Guidebook. Users of any items of information must independently review and verify them for
accuracy and applicability.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Massachusetts Water Resources
Authority (MWRA) is a public agency charged with supplying water and sewerage services to
municipalities in the Boston metropolitan area. The MWRA/MASCO Mercury Work Group, a
public-private partnership of the MWRA and sewer dischargers (including hospitals,
universities, and other industries), was established in 1994 to study and implement ways
to reduce mercury discharges to the MWRA sewerage system. One institution, the Medical
Academic and Scientific Community Organization, Inc. (MASCO) that represents many local
Boston hospitals, has worked from the beginning of this effort to help identify the
sources and methods of removing mercury from hospital waste streams. Phase II of the Work
Group was initiated in 1996 to further examine mercury management techniques and promising
mercury pretreatment technologies.
The MWRA/MASCO Mercury Work Group, Mercury
Management Subcommittee, acknowledges the following participating institutions and
representatives, who served as members of the Mercury Management Plan Subgroup, for the
significant time and resource commitment they have made in support of the Work Group
process and for their contributions to the development of this Guidebook.
NEN Life Sciences Products, Inc. - Ms.
MaryAnn Desisto, Co-Chair
Children's Hospital - Ms. Jo-Ann Grandchamp, Co-Chair
Faulkner Hospital - Mr. Henry White
DVAMC Brockton/West Roxbury - Mr. Dan Erwin
GZA GeoEnvironmental - Mr. Ted Pickering
MA OTA - Mr. Joe Paluzzi
MWRA, Toxic Reduction and Control Department - Ms. Karen Rondeau
Thanks also to David Eppstein, MASCO; Robert Gingras, P.E., Earth Tech (consultant to
MASCO); Dennis Capraro, Walter Schultz, and David Drain, P.E., MWRA; and Les Zenack, P.E.,
consultant to the MWRA; for their invaluable support and assistance.
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