Saturday, December 22, 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 The Sun Chronicle reported EndCap had withdrawn its proposal due to a lack of support from the local communities.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 …
Saturday, November 3, 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He confirms that a 2009 deal between the firm and the city of Attleboro has been rescinded.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 Attleboro and Norton, 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
A letter on the proposed project is modeled after the resolution approved by the Attleboro City Council.
Norton selectmen on Thursday approved a resolution of concern to state officials for the planned capping of the Attleboro Landfill on Peckham Street. 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, South Worcester Street and Union Road. Trucks leaving the facility will follow Peckham Street, Pike Avenue, Route 123, Starkey Street, Holden Street, …
Thursday, September 27, 2012
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, acting 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…
Thursday, September 20, 2012
City Council President Frank Cook's walking out of the meeting on the Attleboro Landfill capping was childish and offensive.
Last evening, City Councilors Jonathan Weydt and Richard Conti held a meeting to inform Ward 4 residents about the situation at the Attleboro Landfill. It was an informational meeting that was requested by the people who live in the area and will be affected in many ways—truck traffic on tiny roads, health risks and property devaluation. The purpose was to educate and listen. Two city councilors cared enough about their constituency to do what they were elected to do. Thank you to both of them. Somehow, several city officials found this to be so offensive that they stormed out. City Council President Frank Cook was one of them. Mr. Cook was "offended" by the a word used by Councilor Weydt. Newsflash: This meeting was not about Mr. Cook or…
Attleboro Ward 4 meeting informs residents of Attleboro Landfill capping project.
Attleboro residents living in Ward 4 were invited to an informational meeting Wednesday night concerning the capping plan for Attleboro Landfill, but Mayor Kevin Dumas, landfill owner Al Dumont and associates from EndCap (the company in charge of the project) were not on the guest list. "We were trying not to have a disruptive meeting," at-large 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 Ward 4 Councilor Jonathan Weydt informed residents on the current condition of the 55-acre landfill and what the capping project could …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Questions need to be answered in writing by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection before any further speculation becomes the basis for conclusions on the Attleboro Landfill capping proposal.
In the Sept. 12 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 Attleboro Landfill "Phase A" mound into the Shpack Superfund Site, that portion of the Attleboro Landfill has been capped and …
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 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 Massachusetts …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The session will involve an informative look at the issue at hand via a PowerPoint presentation. A question and answer session will follow.
This is a reminder that I will hold a special informational meeting with Ward 4 residents who would like to voice their concerns regarding the impact of the current plan to cap the Attleboro Landfill. The meeting will take place at the auditorium of Bristol Community College, 11 Field St., on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The session will involve an informative look at the issue at hand via a PowerPoint presentation. A question and answer session will follow. I urge Ward 4 residents to attend this special meeting. This proposal impacts us all in several ways. My hope is that by the end of the evening, Ward 4 residents will be informed with the cold, hard facts regarding the capping of the landfill and what it entails. It's important, as a tight …
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