Middleboro meeting on tap over contaminated soil ban
Former Town Manager Jack Healey allowed this disaster during his tenure because of his failure to prevent excessive earth removal.
Thanks, Jack for creating a regulation for something you should have prevented.
Middleboro meeting on tap over contaminated soil ban
Seeking to fill an abandoned cranberry bog in order to build a three-story greenhouse, property owner and Raynham developer Jeffrey Tardanico says the contaminated construction fill was laboratory-tested soil approved by the state DEP.
MIDDLEBORO - A new health regulation to prevent contaminated soil from being brought to the town is proposed by the Board of Selectmen, acting as the Board of Health, and a public hearing is scheduled Monday on the proposal.
Selectman Vice-Chairman Stephen McKinnon recommended a health regulation be adopted following a public hearing in September when a developer asked permission to bring contaminated soil to the town to fill an abandoned cranberry bog on Stone Street in order to build a three-story greenhouse.
Property owner Jeffrey Tardanico, Waterville Development, Raynham, MA, said the contaminated construction fill was laboratory tested soil approved by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.
Residents of Stone Street filled the selectmen’s meeting in September and opposed bringing the contaminated soil fearing it would contaminate their shallow wells. Selectmen voted unanimously on Oct. 30 not to support the project.
“It covers all contaminated soils,” said McKinnon. It does not prevent contaminated soils from being transported through town or as a cover to the town landfill which is a lined landfill, explained McKinnon.
The purpose of the regulations is to prevent the contaminated soil being brought in as fill “to prevent people from getting sick down the road,” said McKinnon.
Along with McKinnon, the regulation has been reviewed by Health Officer Robert Buker, Conservation Agent Patricia Cassady, Town Manager Robert Nunes, and Town Council Daniel Murray. If approved following the public hearing Monday, it could become effective in February, said McKinnon.
“I want to say thank you for identifying an issue and coming up with a solution to it,” said selectmen chairman Allin Frawley.
“This has been kicking around for a long time and I think we identified last September that a reasonable thing to do would be to establish a regulation to prohibit this material from coming into town so that we did not have to worry how much of it was getting testing or not getting tested and intimidating our groundwater and other resources,” Planning Board member and former Town Manager, Jack Healey told the selectmen.
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