Click on the links below to download the document:

Metropolitan Beaches Commission Report [1,383 KB]
Metropolitan Beaches Budget & Operations Analysis Report [143 KB]

Click here to download the appendices to the Budget & Operations Analysis Report

INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC HEARINGS
Public Discussion List of Comments [301 KB]
Public Discussion Summaries [66 KB]
Executive Summaries from Public Hearing Minutes [105 KB]
Local Issues [10 KB]
Community Specific Issues [26 KB]
Supplemental Hearings:
- EOEA/DCAM/AFSCME Summary [36 KB]
- Youth Focus Group Summary [17 KB]
- Boston Harbor Island Beaches and Water Transportation Summary [14 KB]

WATER QUALITY
MWRA Beaches Water Quality Report [1,701 KB]
Draft Water Quality Analysis For Each Beach [314 KB]
Nuisance Algae:
- Nahant Bay and Broad Sound Algae Task Force article [303 KB]
- MIT Tech Talk Article [26 KB]

ABOUT THE BEACHFRONT COMMUNITIES
Beach Descriptions and History [734 KB]

BEACH COMPARISONS
Beach Research Summary (3 pages) [31 KB]
Beach Research (8 pages) [70 KB]
Beach Research Source Documents (135 pages) [8,619 KB]

MANAGEMENT MODELS AND FRIENDS GROUPS
"Back to the Beaches" Plan for the Future of Boston Harbor Beaches: Implementation (1993) [1,957 KB]
Piers Park Memorandum of Understanding [2,228 KB]
Revere Beach Partnership Planning Report (2002) [850 KB]
Revere Beach Partnership Accomplishments (2006) [1,980 KB]

RELEVANT PARKS ARTICLES
State House News Service Article, "Lawmakers Sound Off, Say Constituents Angry About State Of Parks System" December, 2006 [21 KB]
Boston Globe Article, "Green Sweep" August, 2006 [84 KB]