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 …
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 …
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 …
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Residents have 21 days to submit comments about the project to EndCap Technologies.
Norton residents sounded off against the plan to cap off the Attleboro Landfill at a public hearing Tuesday night. According to a document supplied by EndCap Technology, the company teaming up with Attleboro Landfill Inc. to complete the project, the City of Attleboro operated the 55-acre dump owned by the Dumont Family in the 1940s through 1975. Later that year, Attleboro Landfill, Inc. used a portion of the property and ceased landfill activity in 1994. Though the company capped this land in accordance to Department of Environmental Protection regulations, 23 acres known as Phase B still requires proper closure. The required closure and post closure work that Attleboro Landfill is expected to do will cost approximately $3.5 million. “…
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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 ›