Updated grades from the MWRA for Boston Harbor show the beleaguered Fort Point Channel was given an F and a D in the past two years.

This comes after the Herald first reported this week the city is applying for a grant from the CDC to monitor for communicable diseases in runoff flowing into the channel.

The MWRA poor grades are a result of fecal coliform and enterocci in the water — the EPA states both are “indicators of the presence of fecal material in water and, therefore, of the possible presence of disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and protozoa.”

Both the Boston Water and Sewer Commission and Boston Public Health Commission acknowledged the grant application to the CDC’s Center for Outbreak Analytics and Disease Modeling has been submitted, but the Health Commission did not return Herald calls Wednesday to explain the application further.

This comes as city officials — both Beacon Hill lawmakers and councilors — have had enough with the Mass and Cass needle-strewn and crime-ridden wasteland.

“We’re coming up on a decade now and Mass and Cass is only getting worse. People with mental health issue are suffering, front-line workers are doing heroic work while facing risks to their own health,” said At-Large City Councilor Erin Murphy.

She added the businesses along the so-called Methadone Mile zone are “struggling” along with youth sports teams being “disrupted” by the overflow and dirty needles tossed about. And now the stormwater flowing right into the Harbor raw.

“This is a crisis and we need to start addressing it that way,” Murphy, who chairs the council’s Committee on Public Health, Homelessness and Recovery, told the Herald.

Lawmakers are pushing the CDC to award the grant because “urgent attention” is desperately needed.