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He confirms that a 2009 deal between the firm and the city of Attleboro has been rescinded.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 …
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 11, 2012
Letter to the editor from Norton resident Heather Graf.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Patch is a great source for following the Dump News. To Attleboro City Councilor Richard Conti, I applaud your math (and reasoning)! $2.52 Per Ton for Attleboro. Norton will not name a price. But does it not strike anyone as really stupid to accept an offer of 25 Cents a Ton, when the 'Standard Fee' is at least $1.00?! And the nerve of EndCap to lowball this, not only in their 2009 'Mitigation Agreement' signed by Mayor Dumas, but that same miserable figure is part of the agreement which EndCap Attorney Richard Nylen has been trying to get Norton's new Town Manager to sign since January of 2012. Someone should also set the record straight: ALI Phase B is NOT an 'Environmentally Dangerous Site'. And one does NOT 'Protect Groundwater' by…
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Councilor Jonathan Weydt says an agreement should not have been signed without input from his constituents.
Attleboro Mayor Kevin Dumas on Wednesday criticized an opinion piece written this week by City Councilor Jonathan Weydt in which he wrote that "Attleboro residents have been sold out" in a 2009 agreement on the proposed Attleboro Landfill capping project between the city and the soil/sediment management firm EndCap Technology. Dumas wrote in an email to Patch that Weydt was committing an act of "political grandstanding." The councilor responded that he was not grandstanding, but rather properly representing his constituents. The agreement signed by Dumas and EndCap President Kurt Schulte in July 2009 details the route trucks would take through Wards 3 and 4 in Attleboro on their way out of the landfill on Peckham Street after delivering "…
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Attleboro residents have been sold out with regards to the situation with the Attleboro Landfill.
It was interesting to see the headline "A Toxic Legacy" in Sunday's issue of The Sun Chronicle and more interesting to see a local supporting piece titled "Our Toxic Legacy." Both stories are about Brownfield projects that are in place or have the means of financial support through several federal and state sources. Although these projects are important, we here in Attleboro's Ward 4 are faced with a toxic reality of our own with ZERO funding. The Attleboro Landfill has been under an enforcement order from the Massachusetts Department Of Environmental Protection to complete the capping and closure of this site on Peckham Street since the 1990s. Studies concluded that there was and will continue to be a potential for contamination to the …
Jerry Chase
7:54 pm on Tuesday, October 2, 2012
In reaction to this headline above, I say, "Baloney!" Would a wood dealer recommend that I burn oil or natural gas? EndCap is a predatory outfit, looking for an easy buck. Rejection of them is called for. more ›