----NEIGHBORHOOD ALERT----
------MEETING NOTICE----
The Standing Committee on Public Works (SCPW) is holding a public hearing
which will effect your
neighborhood for many years to come. The best way that you can protect your
own personal interest, as
well as, save your neighborhood and save your town is to attend this meeting.
Please bring as many people
as you can to the meeting, it's that important. More importantly the agenda
(listed below) will allow you to
put into the record problems that you and your neighborhood may have with our
water & sewer systems.
Thereby assuring your problem a place on the list of work to be done. In
addition, the SCPW has requested
the administration to provide actual data and information that will better
inform you of the possibility of your
problem being corrected.
DATE PLACE
TIME
Tuesday Feb. 19, 02------------------------Upper Nevens
Hall.-------------------- 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Building, 150 Concord St., Framingham MA
------AGENDA------
1) Public Hearing on north side water & sewer problems. Input from citizens
on their
personal problems over the years and any and all possible solutions. As
required by
the SCPW promise to Town Meeting when making the SCPW successful motions
to refer
back to sponsor Articles 15, 16, 22 & 23.
2) A presentation and up-date on all proposed pumping stations including but
not limited to the
water pumping station on Grove & Edmands (for the Doeskin Betterment) and
the
replacement Sewer pumping station for Edgewater Drive.
3) Review of outstanding SCPW questions to the DPW.
4) A presentation and up-date from the administration on the billing,
payments and
abatements/adjustments to out-of-town water & sewer customers.
5) A presentation and up-date from the administration on the SEA consultants
sulfite and
corrosion problems. At our last SCPW meeting the Acting Director of
Public Works stated
we would have the report by the SCPW meeting originally set for 1/22/02.
We were told that
the delay in the SCPW receiving the report was due to "a review of
preliminary reports that
required changes". As was the case when the SEA report on the Edgewater
pumping station
was modified in my request to the administration I will ask for copies of
all preliminary notes,
meetings and reports.
6) A presentation and up-date from the administration on all Framingham
violations of MWRA
limits and the responses of the Town to these MWRA notices.
7) A proposed new revenue for Framingham Sewer Enterprise fund.
8) Action on Town Meeting directive to report back at the next annual town
meeting with
proposed policies and bylaws that recognize the priority of local traffic
when considering the
changing of the traffic flow. In addition, said policies and bylaws
shall require public hearings
be held on any proposed change with written notice of said hearings given
to all residents on
the local roads that will be affected.
PAGE ONE OF TWO PAGE SCPW NOTICE
Some of the additional information requested from the Town Manager
DOESKIN PROJECT: A presentation and up-date by you or your staff on the
proposed water pumping station at
Grove & Edmands (for the Doeskin Betterment) and
a) When the town engineer appeared before the SCPW at its public hearing
on the proposed pumping station
on SVT Land he stated the pumping station would be designed to look
like a barn in keeping with the
neighborhood. He ask the SCPW to continue its hearing until he had a
design of the "Barn type pumping
station". If we are only moving the pumping station to another site
in the same neighborhood, why aren't
you still using the "Barn type pumping station"?
b) In the original explanation the land now being proposed for the
pumping station was rejected because it
was reserved to correct "a very dangerous traffic problem". The SCPW
needs an explanation of what
solved "this very dangerous traffic problem". How was this land
obtained and was it restricted to use by
the acquiring action?
c) Now shown on the maps of the relocated pumping station is a 12" water
line going from the 16" line on
Grove Street to the north side of Edmands Rd. right in front of the
proposed alternates 2A & 2B pipe-line
routes. Instead of the now proposed corner location why isn't the
pumping station moved to the north side
of Edmands Rd. utilizing this 12" line? Wouldn't it involve a lot
less piping, digging and blasting and
therefore be cheaper? Didn't the town engineer at the 2/4/02 BPW
meeting express his opinion that the
present proposal maybe over budget and require further town meeting
action?
d) In view of the conflicting interpretations between the Town Manager
and the Chair of the SCPW on the
meaning of the Town Meeting vote on the so-called Doeskin Articles
these Articles maybe put back into
the 2002 annual Town meeting.
ARTHUR STREET: A presentation by you or your staff on the Arthur Street
pumping Station including:
A) An answer to last years question on who owns the Arthur Street
pumping station land, if it is the MWRA
when and how did they get title to the land?
B) The amount of chemicals now being stored, and the amount being used
per day, at the Arthur Street site as
of 2/1/02, as well as, who is paying for them and the annual costs.
C) An up-date on plans for the Arthur Street pumping station by the MWRA.
EDGEWATER DR. PUMPING STATION:A presentation and up-date by you or your staff
on the design of, as well
as the time table for, replacing the Sewer pumping station on Edgewater
Drive.
MWRA:
A) A presentation and up-date by you or your staff on all Framingham
violations of MWRA limits and copies of
the responses of the Town to these MWRA notices.
B) An up-date by you or your staff on any legal action between the town
and the MWRA. (as per statement by
Mr. Alkhatib at the BPW meeting of 2/4/02).
C) A presentation by you or your staff on any chemicals being used in
the Framingham sewer system
including: the amount stored in Framingham, the cost of said
chemicals and how they are being placed
in the Framingham system. The following appears in the MWRA Advisory
Board report dated
1/9/02 "Additionally, Framingham officials are considering more
chemical additions and the
organization of a "Grease Police" to monitor area restaurants"
D) NATICK ENFORCEMENT; There are many restaurants located in Natick that
use the Framingham sewer
line. This concern was first raised by the SCPW sub-committee in
2000. These sources include the Natick
Mall and other Speen Street establishments. What are the plans for
monitoring these establishments?
How will Framingham enforce grease regulations? How will Framingham
bill these Natick customers for
violations? More importantly how will you guarantee payment of any
charges, in view of the fact that the
majority of the present Board of Selectmen, at your recommendation,
rejected the suggestion of
deposits made by the SCPW.
Sincerely;
Francis X. Reilly, Chair SCPW,
Precinct 7
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