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The public plaza land area where the sculpture is located, in what is now known as downtown Boston, is inland from the location of the ocean's edge 5000 years ago. [11] At that time early native people occupied low grassy plains and forest covered hills that today are under the water of Boston Harbor. [12]
The Ordinance of 1641 extended the property rights of riparian owners from the line of low tide to a maximum distance of 100 rods (1,600 ft; 500 m) from the line of high tide. Generally, other states drew the line of private property at high tide. However, extending shore lines into bordering bodies of water was not unique to Boston.
The dam controls the surface level of the river basin as well its tributaries upstream, including the Back Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles River freshwater basin during high tides. It replaced the 1910 Charles River Dam upstream, now the site of the Boston Museum of Science. The 1910 dam includes two ...
A juvenile humpback whale in Boston Harbor could cause delays on the MBTA ferry through Thursday, the agency said. The setbacks are because of federal regulations that require boats to travel at ...
Throughout the world, fish weirs, wooden fence-like structures built to catch fish, are used in tidal and river conditions as a passive method to trap fish during the cycle from low to high tide, or in river flow. Fish weirs built in places of large tidal change, 12 to 20 feet (3.7 to 6.1 m) between ebb and flow, are built with 4-to-6-inch ...
The Moon Island sewage facility was still operating in 1967, pumping about a million gallons of sewage into Boston Harbor. 15–20% of the sludge that was discharged with the outgoing tides returned on the next incoming tide. The result was that Boston Harbor and Quincy Bay became severely polluted.
A king tide is an especially high tide that brings unusually high water levels and can cause local tidal flooding. Some images taken around #GigHarbor at approximately 9:00 a.m. on 12/27/22 (high ...
When a surge of sticky dark brown syrup washed over Boston’s North End on January 15th, 1919, it wreaked havoc on the neighborhood, killing 21 people, injuring 150, and destroying businesses and ...