Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The plan for the Attleboro Landfill defies logic.
The topic of capping the Attleboro Landfill has come front and center to our area and to say that there is "a whole lotta spinning going on" would be an understatement. A "whole lotta" people are under the impression that EndCap Technology just wants to come into Attleboro, bring in some "soil," cap the landfill and leave. Wrong! EndCap has agreed to cap the back portion of the landfill, but only if Attleboro allows the re-opening of the site to the company for three to five years. This would allow EndCap to dump contaminated material in the area, then the company would cap the landfill with the three to five years worth of contaminated material included. Why would anyone agree to such a plan? A "whole lotta" people believe that EndCap is …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Councilor Jonathan Weydt says an agreement should not have been signed without input from his constituents.
Mayor Kevin Dumas on Wednesday criticized an Attleboro Patch 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 …
Tuesday, August 28, 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 …
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 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. "There …
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