Calf Pasture Pumping Station is built.

1884

Architect: George Clough. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, it is located at 435 Mount Vernon Street. The first sewage pumping station in Boston, it replaces cesspools and sewers all over the city with a city-wide system of pipes that carries sewage to Columbia Point and pumps it to Moon Island where it is released into Boston Harbor at high tide. After a new sewage treatment plant opens on Deer Island opens in 1968, the Calf Pasture station is used only when the main system is overloaded. It is closes for good when another new plant opens on Deer Island in the late 1990s. The site becomes part of a waterfront park, dedicated on June 14, 1992.

Sources
  • Dorchester Historical Society
  • Morgan, Keith N.
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