Nut Island
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| Waters | Boston Harbor , Atlantic Ocean | |
| Geographical location | 42 ° 16 ′ 42 ″ N , 70 ° 57 ′ 19 ″ W | |
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| surface | 8.3 ha | |
Nut Island (also Houghs Tomb or Hoff's Tomb ) is a peninsula in Boston Harbor . It is located 8.2 miles from downtown Boston on the territory of the state of Massachusetts of the United States . Nut Island has an area of approximately 8.3 hectares, belongs to Quincy and is part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area .
Wastewater has been treated on the former island, which is now connected to the mainland, for many decades. Today there is a filter system there that removes coarse components from the wastewater from 21 surrounding cities and then pumps it through a 7.7 km tunnel to the Deer Island Sewerage Treatment Plant .
During the operation of the wastewater treatment plant, which stood on Nut Island until 1997, there was extreme pollution of the port basin at the end of the 20th century due to internal coordination problems between management and employees. The underlying social phenomenon was described in a 2001 article in the Harvard Business Review as the Nut Island effect .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Island Facts: Nut Island. National Park Service , accessed May 29, 2014 .
- ^ Paul F. Levy: When Good Teams Go Wrong. In: Harvard Business Review. March 2001, accessed on May 29, 2014 (English, paid article).