LANESBOROUGH â Lanesborough is under financial pressure to fix its sewer system, town officials say, or face daily fines than could amount to tens of thousands of dollars.
Under a consent decree signed this year with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the town is ordered to put its municipal wastewater pipeline network into compliance with state regulations. Basically it s a complete failure, said Town Manager Kelli Robbins.
Should the town violate any part of the consent decree, the municipality could face, for each violation, daily fines of $100 for the first 15 days, $250 the next 15 days and $500 each day beyond 31 days. For example had any violation occurred since the decree took effect Jan. 13 and lasted through April 10, the total amount would be more than $34,000.
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WEYMOUTH-– U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch is requesting an immediate shutdown of the Fore River Basin s compressor station following an unplanned gas release on April 6.
Lynch stated the unplanned gas release was the third blowout at the facility since Enbridge Inc. began utilizing it in September 2020.
“Every accident at the Weymouth Compressor Station endangers the lives and health of local residents and surrounding communities, and these so-called blowouts have become a dangerous pattern of releasing harmful gas into the nearby residential neighborhood,” he stated. “It is completely unacceptable to allow Enbridge to continue their operations. I have reached out to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for more details about this accident, but the only response that will protect nearby residents would be to order the Weymouth Compressor Station to shut down immediately.
NEW BEDFORD Last summer, you may have walked down to Pier 3, picked up a lobster roll or clam cakes from the city s new clam bar, The Whale s Tail, and enjoyed your meal while watching commercial fishing vessels maneuver around the port.
Whether that can happen again is up to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The agency is currently reviewing the New Bedford Port Authority s application to change the authorized use of the 208-square-foot shed in which the clam bar sits from water-dependent, industrial use to restaurant use.
Edmund Coletta, press secretary for MassDEP, said in an email that the use of the shed for a restaurant has not been authorized and will not be authorized unless and until a license has been issued. Last summer, the clam bar operated without the necessary state authorization.
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