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12.6 |
| Ownership : |
Massachusetts DCR |
| Play Equipment: |
Yes |
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Malibu Beach is a bit of bay sandwiched between a stretch of six-lane Morrissey Boulevard and a fraction of eight-lane Interstate 93. It is a sandy stretch that surrounds a shallow body of water that has about twenty feet of extra beach at low tide. After dusk, the water sparkles with the refracted light of street lamps that line the highway and Morrissey Boulevard, headlights and taillights of passing cars stuck in traffic or zipping by, and the antique lamps that limn the walkway that circles three quarters of this inlet. You can see scores of couples arm-in-arm every evening along Malibu Beach’s promenade.
If untouched by human hands, Tenean, Savin Hill, and Malibu beaches in Dorchester would be nothing more than mud flats. The city created the first two a century ago to encourage saltwater swimming in the neighborhood, and the state built Malibu in the 1930s on land filled for Old Colony Boulevard (later Morrissey Boulevard).
Malibu has an immediate problem: Marsh grass creates a barrier to the water and makes this beach uninviting. The grass is protected by environmental laws.
One sunbather at Malibu said he had tried the water once, but it looked murky and he hadn't gone in again. According to a report by the Metropolitan Beaches Commission, the beaches failed water quality tests a little more than 10 percent of the time in 2005. That's too often, but it does not indicate gross pollution. However, the 24-hour turnaround time in testing makes any finding uncertain.
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