The Advocate - A Household word for 30 years! Vol.30, No.27 -FREEwww.advocatenews.net Boncore planning to resign senate seat; D’Ambrosio considered strong contender Advocate Staff Report A ccording to a recent post on Politico.com, State Senator Joseph Boncore is exFree Every Friday 781-286-8500 Friday, July 9, 2021 Revere Beach celebrates 125 years as America’s First Public Beach Fireworks Celebration on July 12 from 7-10 p.m. T his week the City of Revere, in collaboration with the Revere Beach Partnership and the Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR), announced plans for a fi reworks celebration on Revere Beach to commemorate 125 years of the fi rst public beach in America. On Monday, July 12, the city will celebrate with fi reworks, a live band and games on the sand from 7:00ANTHONY D’AMBROSIO School Committeeman pected to announce his departure from his senate seat to JOSEPH BONCORE State Senator SENATOR | SEE Page 18 10:00 p.m. “As America’s first public beach, Revere Beach continues to be the heart of our city,” said Mayor Brian Arrigo. “Over the past year, the Beach has served as an economic, civic, and public health hub for our community and will continue to serve our residents and families across the Commonwealth.” Charles Eliot was the original architect of the beach area back in 1896; he focused on giving the public access to natural spaces. Eliot was determined to create public spaces of beauty There’s nothing like the colors of a sunset over Revere Beach, which will celebrate 125 years as America’s First Public Beach with a celebration on July 12. near metropolitan areas. Revere Beach became the first public beach in the United States in 1896 and is over three miles long. To this day it remains easily accessible by the MBTA’s Blue Line from Boston. The beach is known to accommodate as many as one million visitors a weekend during its annual sand sculpture competition. Also at the celebration will be the Revere Board of Health, in collaboration with MGH Brigham’s Kraft Center’s Community Care Van, distributing BEACH | SEE Page 12 New report shows average increase of four percent in water quality safety at metropolitan beaches Special to Th e Advocate S ave the Harbor/Save the Bay recently released its annual Water Quality Report Card for the Metropolitan Beaches from Nahant to Nantasket, using monitoring data from the 2020 beach season. Weekly water quality testing at Boston’s regional beaches began in late May 2020. Additional daily testing of Constitution Beach, King’s Beach, Malibu Beach, Tenean Beach and Wollaston Beach began in early June and concluded on September 6, 2020. These beach safety scores are calculated as the percent of water samples that comply with the state Department of Public Health (DPH) single sample limit for bacteria, a straightforward way to evaluate seasonal beach water quality and potential impacts on public health. Rainfall can have a signifi cant impact on beach water quality and can vary greatly from year to year. Changes in the summer storm intensity and frequency can often explain the variations we see; 2020 was a relatively dry year, with only a few large summer storms and relatively fewer wet weather impacts. It is also important to note that some beaches are tested daily, while others are tested weekly, so in some instances a single failed test can change the rating for that beach. These seasonal variations are why Save the Harbor/ Save the Bay is reluctant to draw WATER | SEE Page 15
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