NEW: National Grid Asks for Continuance in Smart Grid Permitting
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Monday, January 27, 2014
GoLocalWorcester News Team
National Grid has requested a continuance from the Worcester Zoning Board of Appeals for the upcoming permitting hearing related to the implimentation of the city's smart grid currently scheduled to take place on February 3rd.
The request letter states that National Grid may need until spring to complete their feasibility analyses of the proposed antenna sites necessary for the smart grid's implimentation.
From the request letter:
As you know, National Grid appeared at your Board’s regularly scheduled public hearing on Monday, January 13, 2014 in connection with the above-referenced Application. At the close of the hearing the Board approved a motion to continue the hearing at its next meeting on February 3, 2014 in order to allow National Grid additional time to compile information regarding the availability and feasibility of other existing sites, specifically the First Congregational Church (the “Church”) and the Hillside Condominiums (the “Condo”). For the reasons below, I am writing to inform the Board that National Grid requires additional time to complete its feasibility analyses at these sites and that final feasibility determinations may not be possible until the Spring.
Read full letter here
This follows GoLocalWorcester's recent coverage of the Smart Meter debate in Worcester.
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Brownfields (BF) are defined as real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
RCRA Corrective Action (RCRA) sites are facilities which treated, stored, or disposed of hazardous wastes. These facility owners are required to clean up environmental contaminants released into soil, ground water, surface water, and air at their sites under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Short Term/Removal (SHORT) sites are typically hazardous waste sites that do not require a long-term cleanup process are considered short-term cleanups (also referred to as "removal actions").
Long Term/National Priority List (NPL) sites are, in most cases, sites that require long-term cleanup end up on the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL is a published list of hazardous waste sites that are eligible for extensive, long-term cleanup actions under the Superfund Program
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Central MA Regional Planning Commission
2 Washington Square, Union Station - 2nd Floor, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $400,000
Fuding Type: Site Assessment
Current Status: N/A
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City of Worcester BP
455 Main Street, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $3.487 million
Fuding Type: Site Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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Coes Knife Property
Coes Street, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: N/A
Fuding Type: Site Assessment, Targeted Brownfields
Current Status: A Phase 1 Targeted Brownfields Assessment (TBA) was completed on 8/30/2001. A Phase II Report was completed on 11/26/02.
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Main South Community Development Corporation
875 Main Street, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $400,000
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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New Garden Park Inc.
89 Shrewsbury Street, Suite 300, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $600,000
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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South Worcester Neighborhood Improvement Corp.
47 Camp Street, Worcester
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $214,650
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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Central MA Economic Development Authority
Worcester, Grafton, Shrewsbury
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $793,710
Fuding Type: Site Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund
Current Status: The Revolving Loan Fund was closed on January 8, 2002 and the Assessment Grant was closed on September 27, 2004.
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Town of Brookfield BP
6 Central Street, Brookfield
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $200,000
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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Town of Northborough BP
63 Main Street, Northborough
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $200,000
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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City of Fitchburg BP
718 Main Street, Fitchburg
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $350,500
Fuding Type: Site Assessment, Cleanup Grant
Current Status: The city focused on the following properties: 26 Willow Street; 49 Snow Street; Former Hope Rubber company; as well as several others.
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Milford Bike Path
51-53 Sumner Street, Milford
Site Type: Short Term/Removal
Description: MassDEP requested EPA to remove surface and subsurface soils containing high concentrations of heavy metals.
Current Status: In August 2011, the EPA completed the removal site evaluation and determined a federal response and a removal action is appropriate.
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Town of North Brookfield BP
193 Main Street, North Brookfield
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $600,000
Fuding Type: Cleanup Grant
Current Status: N/A
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Net Optics Corp.
660 Main Street, Route 20, Sturbridge
Site Type: RCRA
Description: Galileo Electro Optics, Sturbridge manufactures optical equipment. The facility generates small volumes of organic solvents. The site formerly operated a hazardous waste lagoon until 1971. Since then, significant cleanup work has been performed in the lagoon. The site is undergoing investigation and cleanup under a post closure plan approved by the MassDEP.
Current Status: N/A
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Safety Kleen
224 East Main Street, West Brookfield
Site Type: RCRA
Description: Safety-Kleen, West Brookfield is an organic solvent waste collection and storage facility. The facility is located on approximately 1 acre of land. The site is zoned for industrial and commercial use. Organic solvents are collected and stored in tanks. Some cleanup work has been performed. The site is undergoing investigation and cleanup under a hazardous waste license issued by the MassDEP.
Current Status: N/A
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City of Gardner BP
City Hall Annex - Room 202, Gardner
Site Type: BF
Total EPA Funding Received: $1.3 million
Fuding Type: Site Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, Cleanup Grant,
Current Status: The city has had several properties approved to receiving funding for assessment work through their BF assessment grant.
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Fisherville Mill
60 Main Street, Grafton
Site Type: Short Term/Removal
Description: The approximately 16.2-acre site is bounded to the north by Fisherville Pond, to the east by the Blackstone River, to the south by Route 122A, and to the west by private residences.
Current Status: EPA entered into an Administrative Order on Consent with CMEDA in which EPA provided heavy equipment and equipment operators to segregate, when possible, uncontaminated salvageable demolished debris (steel, granite, etc.), and to place ACM debris into trucks for off-site disposal pre-arranged and funded by CMEDA.
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Temple-Stuart Site
4 Holman Street, Baldwinville
Site Type: Short Term/Removal
Description: The Temple-Stuart site is a 23-acre property with five adjoining buildings and a garage located in a largely residential area. The Temple-Stuart facility is approximately three eighths of a mile from the center of Baldwinville.
Current Status: On July 12, 2002, EPA signed an Action Memorandum recommending the following cleanup activities.
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Hocomonco Pond
Otis Street, Westborough
Site Type: Short Term/Removal
Description: The 23-acre Hocomonco Pond site is bordered on the northwest by Hocomonco Pond, a 27 acre shallow, freshwater pond which has long been used for recreational purposes. From 1928 until 1946 the site was used as a wood-treating and preservation operation.
Current Status: The Second Five Year Review conducted in September of 2009 concluded that the remedies for the Hocomonco Pond site are expected to remain protective of human health and the environment once the deed restrictions are in place. The property remains fenced at the perimeter and there has been no evidence of trespassing.
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Genrad Inc
Bolton
Site Type: RCRA
Description: Genrad no longer operates at this location but at one time conducted electroplating operations and generated electroplating wastes. The site formerly operated a hazardous waste lagoon. Significant cleanup work has been performed in the lagoon. The site has undergone investigation and cleanup under a hazardous waste closure plan issued by the MA DEP.
Current Status: N/A
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ECC - Holden
156 Princeton Street, Holden
Site Type: RCRA
Description: ECC, Holden manufactures printed circuit boards. The facility generates ignitable, corrosive and electroplating wastes. The site formerly operated a hazardous waste lagoon. Significant cleanup work has been performed in the lagoon. The site is undergoing investigation and cleanup under a consent order issued by the MA DEP.
Current Status: N/A
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Waters Analytic Instruments
34 Maple Street, Milford
Site Type: RCRA
Description: New RCRA Corrective Action Site for 2020 Baseline.
Current Status: N/A
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Wyman Gordon - North Grafton
244 Worcester Street, North Grafton
Site Type: RCRA
Description: Wyman Gordon, North Grafton manufactures metallic parts for the aerospace and aircraft industries. The facility is located on a 232 acre parcel of land. The facility generates degreasing solvent, oil, acids and electroplating wastes and stores them in drums and tanks.
Current Status: N/A
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Simplex Time Recorder Company
1 Simplex Plaza, Gardner
Site Type: RCRA
Description: New RCRA Corrective Action Site for 2020 Baseline.
Current Status: N/A
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Evergreen Solar Emergency Response
112 Barnum Road, Devens
Site Type: Short Term/Removal
Description: On October 15, 2008 EPA OSC Melanie Morash responded to a release of several thousand gallons of a diluted hydrofluoric-sulfuric-nitric acid mixture at the Evergreen Solar facility (a solar panel manufacturer) in Devens, MA, near the former Fort Devens Military Base. Approximately 458 gallons overflowed a containment area under an air scrubber unit, flowing across a parking lot to a storm drain, then to a man-made vegetated retention pond where the liquid was apparently contained.
Current Status: N/A
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