Monday, December 24, 2012
The proposed project has plenty of opponents in Attleboro and Norton.
The Massachusetts Department of Enviornmental Protection has halted its review of the proposed Attleboro Landfill capping project , putting an immediate end to a controversial plan that had frightened many residents and leaders in Norton and Attleboro. MassDEP Regional Director Philip Weinberg wrote a letter Thursday to EndCap Technology attorney Richard Nylen stating the soil/sediment management company had requested the state agency end its review of the project. The Sun Chronicle reported EndCap had withdrawn its proposal due to a lack of support from the local communities. The news has, at least briefly, united Mayor Kevin Dumas and City Councilor Jonathan Weydt, who represents Ward 4 where the landfill is located. The two had …
Monday, November 5, 2012
The firm says Norton and Attleboro should determine the trucking route to deliver material to the landfill.
The firm chosen to cap the Attleboro Landfill, which is located in the city on Peckham Street near the Norton line, is willing to consider a new, "feasible" plan for doing the work. Delivering material to the landfill via rail rather than trucks, a plan favored by many local leaders, is not one of them, wrote EndCap Technology attorney Richard Nylen in a letter submitted Friday to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The 20-page letter, which is attached to this article, includes responses to various comments on the project submitted last month by current and former elected leaders as well as residents and others. Nylen stresses in the letter that the controversial route trucks are proposed to take through Norton and …
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
He confirms that a 2009 deal between the firm and the city of Attleboro has been rescinded.
The attorney for the firm selected to cap the Attleboro Landfill on Peckham Street said he was disappointed to read the comments submitted to the state Department of Environmental Protection on the project. He said he had hoped to find solutions among the comments, but only came across complaints. "I haven't seen one yet that says, 'here's how to solve the problem,'" Nylen told Patch. "It reminds me of the presidential campaign—everything's negative, but nobody has any solutions to offer." Nylen said he is hoping a solution will come from the government leaders in Norton and Attleboro, two of the three communities through which trucks carrying "slightly contaminated" material are proposed to move six days a week for up to four years to …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Today is the deadline to submit comment letters to EndCap and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Norton selectmen approved a resolution of concern to state officials for the planned capping of Attleboro Landfill Thursday night. In the letter, selectmen requested that a new plan be drafted that excludes Norton roads from the truck routes. The former plan notes that 35 trucks a day will travel to the site, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday for about three years. This comes out to about four or five trucks an hour. They would travel from the Bay Street exit off of Route 495 in Taunton, going through Myles Standish Boulevard, Eddy Street, John Scott Boulevard, S. Worcester Street and Union Road. Trucks leaving the facility will follow Peckham Street, Pike Avenue, Route 123, Starkey Street, Holden Street, Main Street, Robert …
If anything actually needs to be done at this time, then a better plan must be developed to minimize the cost to the communities involved, the risk to the public and the harm to the environment.
The following letter regarding the Attleboro Landfill capping project was addressed to Mark Dakers, bureau chief of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's Southeast Region, and Kurt Schulte, president of EndCap Technology: Please be advised that this is my personal comment letter based upon my own knowledge, experience and opinion, and does not reflect or represent the views or positions of any of my clients. I am a lifelong resident of Attleboro's Ward 4, having grown up at the corner of 959 Pleasant St. and Pike Avenue, and now residing at 172 Pike Ave., midway between Pleasant Street and the bridge over the secondary railroad line. Consequently, I am very familiar with the Attleboro Landfill, formerly known as the …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Attleboro Ward 4 meeting informs residents of Attleboro Landfill capping project.
Ward 4 Attleboro residents were invited to an informational meeting Wednesday night concerning the capping plan for Attleboro Landfill, but mayor Kevin Dumas, landfill owner Al Dumont and EndCap associates were not on the guest list. “We were trying not to have a disruptive meeting,” city councilor Richard Conti said. “We did not invite the mayor. We did not invite Al Dumont. We did not invite EndCap. EndCap asked to come. We asked them not to come, because we wanted this to be a neighborhood meeting.” Using a slideshow presentation, Conti and city councilor Jonathan Weydt informed residents on the current condition of the 55-acre landfill and what the capping project could entail. Landfill activity ceased in 1994 with a portion of the …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The soil/sediment management company says using rail to ship contaminated waste to the Attleboro Landfill would be too expensive and take too long.
On the day the Attleboro City Council passed a resolution favoring the use of rail over trucks for shipping hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of contaminated waste through Norton and Taunton into Attleboro for a landfill capping project, a lawyer for the company heading the project submitted a letter to a city councilor calling the so-called rail option "not feasible." Richard Nylen, attorney for soil/sediment management company EndCap Technology, wrote in a letter on Tuesday addressed to City Councilor Jonathan Weydt that rail delivery would be too expensive and would take too much time—at least 15 more years than the planned three to four years it would take to ship the material with trucks. EndCap has agreed to pay for the …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Letter to the editor from Heather Graf.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012
In the September 12, 2012 Sun Chronicle article titled: ‘Wrangling Over Landfill Fight’, I take issue with one paragraph: “The material (which EndCap proposes to haul in) is considered slightly contaminated, but is not nearly as contaminated as what is already in the dump, and is a threat to leach into groundwater if the dump is not capped, according to DEP.” If that is the case, MassDEP needs to document it in writing. While there is indeed paperwork listing the Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): including dangerous carcinogenic chemicals in the ‘Phase A’ Mound, and US EPA has documented that there is leaching from the ALI ‘Phase A’ Mound into the Shpack Superfund Site, that portion of ALI has been capped and certified by DEP. EndCap’s …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The City Council struggles to come up with a resolution in opposition to the current plan for capping the Attleboro Landfill.
An argument by Attleboro Mayor Kevin Dumas for why he signed an Attleboro Landfill capping agreement in 2009 that calls for thousands of dump trucks to move through city streets for up to four years may have been debunked at the City Council meeting Tuesday evening if statements made by Councilor Richard Conti are accurate. Dumas told the council last week that the signed agreement with the soil/sediment management firm EndCap Technology was a "last-case scenario" and that he preferred material used for the capping be delivered to the landfill on Peckham Street via rail rather than truck. But he said the 2009 agreement was needed in case the rail plan fell through and to avoid waiting "until [a plan] gets shoved down our throat [by the …
The session will take place at Bristol Community College on Sept. 19.
Attleboro's Ward 4 residents will learn more about the plan to cap the landfill on Peckham Street, at least from the point of view of City Councilor Jonathan Weydt, at a session planned for Sept. 19 at the local Bristol Community College campus. Weydt represents Ward 4, an area where thousands of trucks would travel six days a week over a three- to four-year period if a version of the capping plan approved by Mayor Kevin Dumas (it is the only version known to feature his signature, but he recently said it's not his first choice) becomes a reality. Weydt recently criticized the plan in a commentary that appeared on Patch. Dumas called the piece "political grandstanding." "This meeting will provide us with the information on a proposal …
Brian Tippetts
7:29 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
Many really cool plans are carried out on landfill properties; using the facility’s buffers and its foot print. The landfill cap itself can have native vegetation landscaping which creates habitat, ecological diversity and lower cost maintenance that tradition covers. The facility buffers have a multitude of possibilities. There are several funding sources. Brian Tippetts more ›