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A new day for Sunset Lake
Groundbreaking is the culmination of 11-year effort.
From left, parks commissioner Tony Lima, former conservation agent Liz Durkee, conservation committee chair Joan Hughes, FANS president Donna Hayes, and parks commissioner Amy Billings break ground at Sunset Lake during a small ceremony Monday.
In 2010, a group of neighbors living near Sunset Lake in Oak Bluffs had an idea to improve the lake. Eleven years later that idea has become a reality.
Early Monday morning, the Friends and Neighbors of Sunset Lake (FANS), along with other stakeholders, gathered for a small groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction and renovation at the lake.
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Despite snow, lighthouse test holes dug
Results will determine whether drilling is done.
A hole in the walkway to the lighthouse that s flagged for lead testing.
Technicians from Renova Environmental Services, LLC, a New Jersey contractor for the U.S. Coast Guard, have begun digging test holes to survey soils around East Chop Lighthouse for lead contamination.
As The Times previously reported, high levels of lead are already known to be in the ground around the lighthouse, based on prior testing. The Coast Guard disclosed the existence of lead contamination at the lighthouse to The Times in 2019. Prior to that, museum and local officials say, they weren’t made aware such a condition existed there.